metonyms

Some people become synecdoches, symbols or metonyms.

iPhone 4S: Stephen Fry's review 2011

I contend that these texts serve as metonyms for larger sets of associated principles and values, and that their invocation usually is not meant to point to the literal meaning of the text itself.

Bartrum on The Constitutional Canon as Argumentative Metonymy Mary L. Dudziak 2009

Christabel are themselves metonyms of their fathers: just as the spell upon Christabel becomes "Lord of [her] utterance," so Geraldine's seduction of daughter and father alike can be read as the revenge of her own father, Lord

Notes on ''Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes' 2006

Fine, but even better: I desire, therefore you, he, she or it is, according to a mobilized army of metaphors and metonyms and anthropomorphisms.

Tricky, Abstruse Questions Fielded by Frayn the Brain 2007

Rather, my practice will be to take feelings performed within Hemans's text as metonyms which should be linked with material causes, historical implications, and (important in a poem about religion) cultural practices.

Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_ 1998

The cemeteries themselves are the metonyms of the villages, and the graves of the houses.

Myths and Legends of China 1909

Maybe in lieu of dropping all metaphors, liberals should demand we ban metonyms so that tragedies like this will never happen again.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

It also has to do with non-stop nightlife in general, with a food culture that never stops, never surrenders to the logic of culinary restraint; it is singing in public, fast-forged comraderies, the smell of food at 5 in the morning, walking along the Han River -- it's a million specific things that are metonyms for the overall greatness of Korean culture itself.

Scribblings of the Metropolitician 2009

It also has to do with non-stop nightlife in general, with a food culture that never stops, never surrenders to the logic of culinary restraint; it is singing in public, fast-forged comraderies, the smell of food at 5 in the morning, walking along the Han River -- it's a million specific things that are metonyms for the overall greatness of Korean culture itself.

Scribblings of the Metropolitician 2009

Reference to the designated section in Appendix A reveals a brief discussion of the subject of sex-linked metaphors which quite correctly points out that many common metaphors, metonyms, and allusions refer to males — Achilles 'heel, before you can say Jack Robinson,

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 2 1984