ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Metonymy (/mɪˈtɒnɪmi, -nəmi, mɛ-/) is a figure of speech in which a concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

Detailed explanation-2: -Metonymy is a figure of speech in which one item’s name represents another item that usually has a close relation with the first one.

Detailed explanation-3: -334-336), who have classified metonymies pragmatically into three groups: referential metonymies, predicational metonymies and illocutionary metonymies (or speech act metonymies).

Detailed explanation-4: -’Synecdoche’ is when the word for a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or less commonly, the word for a whole is used to refer to a part. ‘Metonymy’ is when a word associated with something is used to refer to the thing itself.