Like words, they signify things beyond themselves by means of linguistic devices such as metaphor and metonymy. |
He mediates through symbols, metaphors, allegories and metonymy to transmute his experiences of the phenomenal world. |
Horace certainly employs metaphors, but metonymy is by far the more common trait in his poetry and brings his use of language closer to a vernacular diction. |
This means at the level of the clinic that a symptom is a metaphor and desire is a metonymy. |
The cool universe of digitality has absorbed the world of metaphor and metonymy. |
Allegory cuts across metaphor and metonymy, the image is both fragment and performs a figurative function. |