This kinda thing makes me totally hot.
An example of a single sentence that displays synecdoche, metaphor and metonymy would be: “Fifty keels ploughed the deep”, where “keels” is the synecdoche as it names the whole (the ship) after a particular part (of the ship); “ploughed” is the metaphor as it substitutes the concept of ploughing a field for moving through the ocean; and “the deep” is the metonym, as “depth” is an attribute associated with the ocean.
In addition to metonymy and synecdoche I’m also reading about polysemy tonight. FOR FUN.
Logofetish, indeed.
I got there by way of Zaporozhian Sich which I got to from the article on Taras Bulba. I think I need to thank @greatdismal on twitter for spawning this week-long knowledge trek that started with Taras.
Tags: i, nerd with a capital N, personal, tweets, yes this is really how I amuse myself
This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 23:50.
