The fact played an important part in determining Latin poetic vocabulary; for instance, such an ordinary word as femina, cretic in its oblique cases, is usually represented through metonymy by such words as nurus and mater.
In prose, the word is often used of young plants or farm animals; and here frena nouella may well be a metonymy for frena nouellorum equorum.
The metonymyis not found in Virgil or Propertius, but compare Lucretius IV 970 'patriis .
Metonymy is a figure of rhetoric in which the name of one object is put for another, the two being so related that the mention of one recalls the other.
A Metonymy is where the cause is put for the effect, or the effect for the cause; the container for the thing contained; or the sign for the thing signified.
After a personal term taken by metonymy for a thing, which is not improper; as, "Of the particular author which he is studying.
The holly is a plant of peculiar veneration at this period of the year,--so much so as to have acquired to itself by a popular metonymy the name of the season itself, being vulgarly called "Christmas.
The “few names” which had not defiled their garments, were used by a metonymy to signify persons.
Jove: by metonymyfor the realms of Jove and Pluto.
It is by a pure metonymy that we attribute value to the material substance itself, and here, as on many other occasions, metaphor leads science astray.
The value has been incorporated and mixed up with the soil, and this is the reason why we can with propriety employ a metonymy and say /the land has value/.
Metonymy calls one thing by the name of another which is closely related to the first.
Metonymy is the substitution of the name of one thing for that of another to which the former bears a known and close relation.
The general effect of metonymy is to bring before the mind a definite image, and thus to impart a graphic quality to the style.
Though the metonymy of bread-earner for a shoeblack's knife may not equal these in elegance, it perhaps surpasses them in ingenuity.
In the line "Lucidity of soul unlocks the lips" are both metonymy and personification.
