Let's have fun with metonymy! I got into this thicket with an early scene in my new profile of Jerry Brown. Here I was trying to convey the interesting/odd experience of talking with the man: "Do you ...
A metonym is a rhetorical device in which a word or phrase stands in for another word or phrase. The idea is to express something abstract in more concrete, visual terms. "The White House announced . ...
In "'Wall Street' No Longer Exists" (op-ed, Sept. 23), Alan Reynolds states, "Wall Street was always a metaphor, of course." Actually, "Wall Street," like "The Pentagon" or "Hollywood" is a metonym, ...
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