ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Metonymy is closely related to synecdoche, the naming of a part for the whole or a whole for the part, and is a common poetic device.

Detailed explanation-2: -The famous linguist Jakobson has pointed out that the basic difference between metaphor and metonymy is that metaphor is based on similarity while metonymy is on contiguity.

Detailed explanation-3: -A metaphor is considered a substitution of one concept with another while a metonymy associates one concept with another. Metaphors are expressions which show similarity between two things and metonymies are figures of speech which refer to a thing not by name but by an associated word.

Detailed explanation-4: -Metaphor (drawing a similarity between two things) and metonymy (drawing a contiguity between two things) are two fundamental opposite poles along which a discourse with human language is developed.

Detailed explanation-5: -While metonymy replaces a concept or object entirely with a related term, synecdoche takes an element of the object and uses it to refer to the whole. Metaphor uses unlike things to draw an interesting comparison.