Metonymy

the Quran. As Arberry in the introduction of his book the Koran interpreted states, the Quran "is neither poetry nor prose but a unique fusion of both" (x). Among the various rhetorical devices used in the Holy Qur’an, metonymy is the one which is the prime focus of this paper. Metonymy, etymologically speaking, comes from the Greek word “metonumia” which means “a change of name” (Li 1998). Instead of referring to something directly, we can use some other

is another device hidden in the ads in one’s daily paper: Metonymy. Metaphor is a literary device when one is trying to relate a subject to an irrelevant object; for example, a “poker face”. When a person is described as a poker face, it means that his/her face is unemotional, like a person who’s in a middle of a poker game. Metonymy, on the other hand, does not directly describe the subject from another object. When one’s using metonymy, people tend to recognize another meaning or concept of this

despite knowing the mortal flaws of Caesar, calls him “this god”. E. Metonymy- A figure of speech that replaces the name of a thing with the name of something else with which it is closely associated. Ex.- The given lines are from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” Act I. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”Mark Antony uses “ears” to say that he wants the people present there to listen to him attentively. It is a metonymy because the word “ears” replaces the concept of attention. F. Hyperbole-

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distinction needs to be made between what is ‘said’ and what is ‘meant’ (Chandler 2007: 135). In this analysis, the photograph of Pamela represented as ‘meat’ and the phrases; “All animals have the same parts” and “Have a heart”, are tropes. Metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony are the four basic tropes (Chandler 2007: 135). Tropes in visual as well as verbal forms can be seen as reflecting our fundamentally relational understanding of reality. Reality is framed within systems of analogy. Figures of

In this research, the researcher discusses the figurative language based on Perrine’s perception. According to Perrine (1977:61-109), figurative language consists of 12 kinds, they are: simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, symbol, allegory, paradox, hyperbole/overstatement, understatement, and irony. What follows are explanation about the figurative language based on Perrine’s perception: 1. Simile Simile is a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone

Webster defines metonymy as “a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated”. Although Fleck’s concept of metonymy agrees with Webster, he begins his argument by presenting a 16th century definition of the word from George Puttenham (18). Puttenham’s definition gives insight into the slipperiness of metonymy and how its use can conjure up many different meanings

developed as an inanimate machine, Swollen, heavy (17). She has given up trying to be human and has resigned herself to the fact that she has been taken over completely by the machines that surround her. Metaphorically speaking, with the use of metonymy, the secretary, now as a machine herself is about to be delivered / of a baby Xerox machine (18-20), thus perpetuating a species of human machines. In the final four lines, the secretary decries that I wonce was a woman and that she needs to be

human characteristics to an object, animal or an abstract idea. 4. Synecdoche is a figure of speech showing the use of part for the whole. Synecdoche substitutes some significant detail or aspect of an experience for the experience itself. 5. Metonymy is the figure of speech describing one thing by using the term for another thing closely with

renewed scholarly attention recently. Sebastian Matzner’s reassessment of the rhetorical trope metonymy would possibly contribute both on the theoretical and on the practical level.1 Metonymy can be distinguished from metaphor in the sense that metonymy is characterized by contiguity, which could have important bearing on the understanding of σάρξ.2 Matzner argues that the contiguity principle of metonymy is to be understood as lexical, not logical, contiguity, which implies that seemingly similar