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=== Similarities === | === Similarities === | ||
"Every metonymy is a synecdoche, but not every synecdoche is a metonymy. This rule is true because a metonymy must not only be a part of the root word, making a synecdoche, but also be a unique attribute of or associated with the root word" (Modugno) | "Every metonymy is a synecdoche, but not every synecdoche is a metonymy. This rule is true because a metonymy must not only be a part of the root word, making a synecdoche, but also be a unique attribute of or associated with the root word" (Modugno).<ref name=Ref7/> | ||
The White House, the Kremlin, and Downing Street can be used to represent the governments of the United States of America, Russia, and Great Britain, respectively. | The White House, the Kremlin, and Downing Street can be used to represent the governments of the United States of America, Russia, and Great Britain, respectively. | ||
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* <ref name=Ref5>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/10.2307/2919247.pdf?acceptTC=true/ The Evolution of Figures of Speech] </ref> | * <ref name=Ref5>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/10.2307/2919247.pdf?acceptTC=true/ The Evolution of Figures of Speech] </ref> | ||
* <ref name=Ref6>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/10.2307/456138.pdf/ A Grouping of Figures of Speech] </ref> | * <ref name=Ref6>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/10.2307/456138.pdf/ A Grouping of Figures of Speech] </ref> | ||
* <ref name=Ref7>[http://books.google.com/books?id=AfVzzLknnNsC&pg=PA9&dq=synecdoche&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ubBSVPrzIomOoQS_voHwDA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=synecdoche&f=false/ William Shakespeare's Othello] </ref> | |||