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What does metonymy mean?

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Noun
  1. The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.
  2. (countable) A metonym.
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This means at the level of the clinic that a symptom is a metaphor and desire is a metonymy.
Allegory cuts across metaphor and metonymy, the image is both fragment and performs a figurative function.
The piece foregrounds the poetic tension between metaphor and metonymy which, I have argued elsewhere, exist in each other.
He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus.
Like words, they signify things beyond themselves by means of linguistic devices such as metaphor and metonymy.
Traditional and cognitive rhetorics differ most markedly in their approach to metaphor, metonymy, and other figures.

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