| 单词 | metonymy |
| 例句 | If you have not thought much about iambs and trochees, or denotation and connotation, or synecdoche and metonymy in recent years, you are in for a day tripper’s version of literary spelunking. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z The closing credits begin unspooling over an image of a little girl’s shoes catching fire and burning up, a grimly poetic metonymy of the Gallardos’ tragic back story. ‘Perry Mason’ Season 2, Episode 5 Recap: Follow the Money 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z And I argue that even though he’s world-famous and globally acclaimed, he’s really underrated for the kind of sophisticated nuanced deployment of homophones, metonymy, simile, metaphor, braggadocio, allusion. Jay-Z is ‘Robert Frost with a Brooklyn accent,’ a Georgetown professor writes in his new book 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Conversation with him quickly soars into rare air: subjectivity and objectivity, metonymy and metaphor. On Governors Island, a Machine That Jolts History 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The weapon’s power — to destroy all computers on board the American ships, rendering them utterly isolated — works as a kind of metonymy for the book’s argument about America’s waning global influence. Stories of War and Its Aftermath, From Ancient Greece to America in ‘2034’ 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z It is a metonymy that suggests that the irreducible lives and fates of the dispossessed are not this show’s concern, and certainly haven’t been “recovered” as we were promised at the outset. In ‘Afterlives,’ About Looted Art, Why Are the Victims an Afterthought? 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z He does not understand metaphor, or analogy, or metonymy, or even just nuance. Very heterosexual couples and 18th-century airports: it's 4 July, Trump-style | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z I was enchanted with the words metonymy and synecdoche when I learned them in a high school English class. The Metonymy of Matrices 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z In English it’s unreliable narrator, or ethos, or metonymy, or thesis sentence. Fortress of Tedium: What I Learned as a Substitute Teacher. 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Fort McMurray is more than an environmental hotspot, more than a metonymy for oil sands, more than a grail for jobseekers and grifters. There’s more to Fort McMurray than oil sands – it’s a real community | Aritha van Herk 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z The difficulty in talking about painful sensations forces people to draw on metaphors, analogies and metonymies when attempting to communicate their suffering to others. How to Talk About Pain 2014-07-12T04:00:00Z With their talent for abbreviation and metonymy, “association football” quickly became “soccer”, from the word “association”. Actually, It's "Soccer" 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z “Bubbly” for “champagne” might be metonymy, but maybe it’s synecdoche because the bubbles are in the champagne. The Metonymy of Matrices 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z By a like metonymy of language, the "Ascension" of Christ has also allusion to the Sun at the summer solstice. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z For a time it seems not so important to classify the metonymies as to make peas or dandelion taste like coffee. The Story of a Life 2011-10-11T02:01:02.723Z Often by a metonymy of speech the name of a part is given to the whole. A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version 2011-05-31T02:00:30.837Z To send a person a bit of hair, or even, by metonymy, the silken string which bound it, was a token of submission. Oriental Women Putting aside the intricacies of word usage, I’ve been thinking about the mathematical metonymy of matrices. The Metonymy of Matrices 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z The hands, as by a striking metonymy those happy laborers were termed, who never knew the cares which environ the head, were just going out to their day's work. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion Our employment of 'deep' reminds of the Latin altum, which, properly signifying high or lofty, is, by a familiar species of metonymy, put for its opposite. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The night was so still and ghostlike—the atmosphere about the cottage so charged with tragedy—the metonymy this invisible speaker employed so subtle! Sunlight Patch “He has read Shakespeare,” “He was addicted to the use of the bottle,” “All patriots fight for the flag,” are examples of metonymy. English: Composition and Literature It is equally true that they were Idolaters--they worshipped images or statues of the gods, which images were also, by an easy metonymy, called "gods." Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The “few names” which had not defiled their garments, were used by a metonymy to signify persons. A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse In the line “Lucidity of soul unlocks the lips” are both metonymy and personification. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Those founded on contiguity are metonymy, synecdoche, exclamation, hyperbole, apostrophe, and vision. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism One very common species of metonymy is, when the badge is put for the office. The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. There is a special kind of metonymy which is given the dignity of a separate name. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric As stars flash into light, so he flashes into metaphor, metonymy, trope, personification, or simile. A Hero and Some Other Folks "All thinking is analogizing, and it is the use of life to learn metonymy." The Last Harvest The general effect of metonymy is to bring before the mind a definite image, and thus to impart a graphic quality to the style. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Figurative or tropical language chiefly consists in the transfer of words to new senses, as by metaphor or metonymy. Logic Deductive and Inductive It seems a sort of metonymy; Maudlin put for Oxford. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc Here the word tongue is put for speech, the instrument for the thing effected, and this metonymy is joined with a metaphor. Companion to the Bible If you say that the “dollar” is metonymy for “the man possessed of a dollar,” with rights to defend, and reasonable expectations to be realized, you convict yourself of reaction. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 To most persons the term "figure of speech" suggests such figures as metonymy and synecdoche, which they once learned to define, but never thought of using voluntarily in their own writing. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers Monk, not Cromwell, is the military dictator that Milton has in view in the metonymy Sulla. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Brit.'; used here, by metonymy, for a great treasure. An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry The principal varieties of the trope are the metonymy and the metaphor. Companion to the Bible Though the metonymy of bread-earner for a shoeblack's knife may not equal these in elegance, it perhaps surpasses them in ingenuity. Tales and Novels — Volume 04 A special seal is a very natural metonymy for a special commission. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies And hence, again, by metonymy, to that projecting part of the land, whereby the gulf is formed; and still further to any promontory or peninsula. The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus This last relation has been thought so important that the metonymy based upon it has received a distinct name—+Synecdoche+. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition The metonymy is founded on the relation of one thing to another. Companion to the Bible And so I addressed this poor little expensive old woman in the following terms, converting her by a violent metonymy into a comprehensive plural. In the Days of the Comet I believe tythe is right, and that the expression is proverbial, in which tithe is taken, by an easy metonymy, for harvest. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies But bilal also signifies "moisture" or "beneficence," "benefits": it may be intended for a double entendre but I prefer the metonymy. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 11 [Supplement] No man uses figures of speech with more propriety because he knows that one figure is called a metonymy and another a synecdoche. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 The synecdoche, in which a part is put for the whole, as the sword for war, is in its nature essentially a metonymy. Companion to the Bible We speak of a tedious region, a tedious lecture, and tedious company only by way of metonymy—we always mean the emotional state they put us into. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Rhetoricians give elaborate classifications of metonymies, but they are of little value to the scriptural student, since all are interpreted according to the few simple principles given in the preceding chapter. Companion to the Bible |
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