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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>== Metonymy ==<br />
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1. A figure of speech that replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else closely associated (Baldick 154).<br />
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2. The literal term for one thing is applied to another with which it has become closely associated because of a recurrent relation in common experience (Abrams 103).<br />
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3. Metonymy comes frome the Greek word metonymia which means change name (Hawkes 4).<br />
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4. Synecdoche is an important kind of metonymy, which the name of a part is substituted for that of a whole, or vice versa (Baldick 154).<br />
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=== Examples ===<br />
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1. The White House can be substituted for the President (Hawkes 4).<br />
2. The Crown for the Monarch (Hawkes 4).<br />
3. The press for journalism (Baldick 154).<br />
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== Works Cited ==<br />
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Abrams, M.H., and Geoffrey Galt Harpham. ''A Glossary of Literary Terms''. Boston: Rosenburg, 2005.<br />
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Baldick, Chris. ''Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms''. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.<br />
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Hawkes, Terence. ''Metaphor''. London: Methuen, 1972.</div>Bjacobs