Essays Tagged: "Metonymy"

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r at the woman's place for a hot date. There is not any metaphor in the advertisements but there is metonymy in both. Each cologne advertisement is basically saying that if you use our cologne you wil ... adult female in bed in their underwear, then the text would answer any questions they had. There is metonymy present in this advertisement though. They are trying to associate their fragrance with hav ...

(4 pages) 98 0 3.0 May/2004

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Metonymy in Language and Thought; the concept of metonymy in cognitive linguistics

Metonymy1) What is metonymy?Working definition:Metonymy is a cognitive process in which one conceptu ... ealised cognitive model (ICM). (Zoltán Kövecses; Metaphor; Oxford University Press 2002)Metonymy is usually used to get an easier access to something.difference to metaphor: metaphor uses ... uses two domains one of which is abstract and one of which is concrete2) How to distinguish between metonymy and metaphor:Metaphor: The creampuff was knocked out in the 1st round.Metonymy: We need a n ...

(3 pages) 56 0 4.3 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

Note teaking part 3

n; abstract/inanimate object; used in odes and elegiesHyperbole- overstatement, extreme exaggerationMetonymy- replaces the name of one thing with the name of something else closely associatedParadox- ...

(4 pages) 38 0 3.0 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Gothic Techniques used in Tim Winton's "In the Winter Dark" - 1st Chapter

and melancholic tone of the speaker is conveyed through many of these techniques. Such include the metonymy of gloom and horror, heightened emotions, the distraught female, dreams and omens, isolatio ... aders and creates the atmosphere required to unravel the plot. The descriptions he uses reflect the metonymy of gloom and horror that he is trying to project onto the reader which add to the suspense ...

(3 pages) 20 1 3.0 Apr/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Poetry analysis of Blake's London and Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.

escription of a society desperate to succeed through neglect is built through Blake's clever use of metonymy of the whole society "hand". His use of juxtaposition of feeding little and begging simulta ...

(5 pages) 27 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry

Cognitive Semantics - Extensions of Meaning

and it is usually generated and interpreted using strategies of meaning extension like metaphor and metonymy: I think I could eat an entire cow; This 5 euros note is my lunch today; We saw a giant cat ... d red, moving forward; The 6 p.m. train was passing.1.2. Sentence and utterance level: metaphor and metonymyMetaphor and metonymy are the two most relevant figures of speech for semantic extension abo ...

(11 pages) 57 1 5.0 Aug/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies

Rising Five By Norman Nicholson Message conveyed through the child's experience

ve as the child's experience. Nicholson uses various parallel structure, clever imagery, intriguing metonymy and various language techniques to imply the message that rushing towards the future may no ... pinion. To the contrary, the child is then lead not to freedom, however to death. There are various metonymy of death, the "baby's cradle", "the grave in the bed" and the "dust dissect(ing) tangential ...

(2 pages) 16 0 4.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry