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metonymy
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metonymy (mĭtŏn`əmē), figure of speech in which an attribute of a thing or something closely related to it is substituted for the thing itself. Thus, "sweat" can mean "hard labor," and "Capitol Hill" represents the U.S. Congress.


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As Douglass lost his mother to her daily toil as a slave and her consequent early death, Aunt Hester is a main source of maternal nurturance for him and serves in this instance as a metonymic substitute for his biological mother.
Metonymic forms are the articulation of abandoned use value" (Stewart 1984:149).
Yet, because it is metonymic of the entire forest, the phrase the whole willow (156) irresistibly takes on an added dimension beyond the sentence in which it occurs.
 
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