Words similar to metonymy

Example sentences for: metonymy

How can you use “metonymy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Women's language is often metonymy for women's literary style.
All these are feasible surmises by the process of metonymy.
“Address your remarks to the chair” illustrates metonymy, a figure of speech in which something is called by the name of something else associated with it.
2. crown for king: metonymy:: blade for sword:?
Privy and closet are examples of euphemism by metonymy, which is the substitution of the name of an attribute of a thing for the thing itself: a toilet is a private place, therefore a privy.