Metonymy, usage, and connection

Your satin. The skirt'll be a mass of wrinkles in the back

• concrete thing instead of an abstract notion

• a container instead of a contained thing

• a material instead of a thing made of it

• an instrument instead of a doer

From Hamlet: Till the foul crimes done in my of nature are burnt and purg'd away.

• life, removed

• natural world, sold

• animal kingdom, stolen

• earth, received

SHS won the football game.

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

Referring to tissues as "Kleenex" is an example of . . .

• Metonymy
• Litotes
• Metaphor
• Hypallage
• Antonomasia

The pen is mightier than the sword

• concrete thing instead of an abstract notion

• a container instead of a contained thing

• a material instead of a thing made of it

• an instrument instead of a doer

When we talk about this nation's FOREfathers, we are talking about the people that founded the country.

• TRUE

• FALSE

A person can ingest new information.

• yes

• no

Hollywood has a lot of blockbusters coming out this winter.

• Metonymy

• Synecdoche

"I like to read Shakespeare"

• Metaphor

• Metonymy

figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated.

• metonymy

• synecdoche