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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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These metonymies of the ear, strangely echoing and displacing both Constructivist metonymies of the hand and Surrealist metonymies of the foot, not only demarcated Genzken's departure from her preoccupation with sinuous organic forms in her sculpture but also responded to the increasingly reactionary resuscitation of photographic portraiture by her peers. The history of metaphysics, like the history of the West, is the history of these metaphors and metonymies. The coincidentia, the juxtaposition, of these two men, curiously consonant with Stendhal's apocryphal definition of the novel, in Le Rouge et le noir, as a "miroir qu'on promene l e long des sentiers de la vie," demonstrates Cervantes' novelistic metonymies whereby "toda comparacion es invidiosa," because, unlike the intended effect of metaphor in poetry, through which each of the things compared gains in force, in Cervantine comparison each element loses force. |
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