metonym

When, a mere eight images into the Tate show, he and curator Mary Horlock dealt out Macau Bridge, 1993--a hazy, industrial sublime view of a half-built highway bridge in the Far East, crane boom angling in--and bracketed it with a shot of two punks taken for a fashion magazine and a monochrome study of a deliriously sweaty clubber, it was dear that the artist has no hesitancy about offering photographic metonyms for his own bridge-building practice.

Infinitely versatile with his homophones and metonyms, he is also a certified pundit, someone who dispenses opinions in an authoritative manner, or a scholar on a particular subject area.

A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms-in short, a sum of human relations, which have been enhanced, transposed, and embellished poetically and rhetorically, and which after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory to a people: truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that is what they are; metaphors which are worn out and without sensuous power; coins which have lost their pictures and now matter only as metal, no longer as coins.

A politician or agenda can gain support when it metonymically captures existing grievances and desires (ranging from economic anxiety to desire for a secure nation to a sense of being left behind in national development); however, such shared desires cannot be fully contained by the metonyms, and inevitably citizens become disenchanted.

Hands are surrogates and metonyms, extremities that preserve in bronze the friction ridge on a fingertip; an odd, talon-like nail; or plump pockets of skin elsewhere giving way to bone.

Medem employs the mise-en-scene as an attempt to re-insert women into the historical trajectory of European historical and political space by means of, one, allegories that appropriate narratives of women from antiquity and, two, metonyms and metaphors of spatial mobility.

Tinsley also positioned Beyonce as continuing in the tradition of Black women's music, wherein "trifling men have long been metonyms for a patriarchy that never affords Black women the love and life they deserve."

He covers making metonyms both naturally and artistically, interweaving metonymy and metaphor, masterpieces of metonymy on the Acropolis, and the metonymy of a perfect festive moment.

While the acclamation of Sarah within Judaism is well known, Bakhos finds the depiction of Hagar among rabbinic interpreters to be unexpectedly neutral, in contrast with the antipodal relation Hagar shares with Sarah among many early Christian interpreters, in which the two often stand as metonyms for Judaism and Christianity.

Lakoff & Johnson (2003) have indicated that metonyms are cognitively established "referential devices".