Microsoft Word Seminars on stylistics

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Metonymy 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trite 
Genuine 
Fifty 
sails, 
smiling 
years (the spring), to earn 
one’s 
bread 
(means 
of 
living), to live by the pen (by 
writing), to succeed to a 
crown (to become a king) 
“In the morning old 
Hitler-face questioned me 
again.”(A. Silitoe) 
He made his way 
through the perfume and 
conversation. 
Synecdoche
is the case when the part of an object is called instead of the 
whole. It has given rise to many phraseological units: not to lift a foot (Do not help 
when help is needed), under one’s roof (in one’s horse) 
The sources where images for metonymy are borrowed are quite different: 
features of a person, names of writers and poets, names of their books, names of 
some instruments, etc. 
The functions of metonymy are different. 
Metonymy 
Genuine 
Trite/Dead 
Metonymy
 
stylistic device based on a different type of 
relation between logical and contextual 
meanings, a relation based upon the 
association of contiguity 
The transferred meaning 
is established in the 
semantic structure of the 
word as a secondary 
meaning 
If the interrelation 
between the dictionary