“Even if skin color were taken as a signifier for race, a metonym for some racial homunculus, all it would prove is a trope, not an index.”

“The I of her narrative is a masquerade, and her identity is never more than a metonym for an endless chain of signifiers.”

“Hoping to bring democracy to the workplace, Propst had instead ushered in the cubicle, a billion-dollar industry and a metonym for drudgery.”

“He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus.”

“The cool universe of digitality has absorbed the world of metaphor and metonymy.”

“If metaphor established a Burkean epistemology, metonymy establishes language as the foundation of that epistemology.”

“For four lines, objects of prepositions and the parenthesized nouns seem related as synonyms, metaphors, or metonymies.”

“Those metonymies repeat some disruption of order that incites the narratable.”

“There are several kinds of metonymies, but the one that comes to mind most easily is Container for the Thing Contained.”