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The following is a list of common metonyms. [ n 1 ] A metonym is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.
Hebrew Bible words and phrases (3 C, 71 P) N. New Testament words and phrases (7 C, 90 P) S. Septuagint words and phrases (8 P) U. Unnamed people of the Bible (3 C ...
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Anadiplosis – repeating the last word of one clause or phrase to begin the next. Analogy – the use of a similar or parallel case or example to reason or argue a point. Anaphora – a succession of sentences beginning with the same word or group of words. Anastrophe – inversion of the natural word order.
Metalepsis uses a familiar word or a phrase in a new context. [13] For example, "lead foot" may describe a fast driver; lead is proverbially heavy, and a foot exerting more pressure on the accelerator causes a vehicle to go faster (in this context unduly so). [14] The figure of speech is a "metonymy of a metonymy". [13]
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Hebrew words and phrases in Jewish law (1 C, 179 P) Hebrew words and phrases in Jewish prayers and blessings (1 C, 100 P) New Testament Hebrew words and phrases (5 P)
For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein , 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").