Metonymy; Clare
Last week, the final question on our Arabic exam involved reading a paragraph describing someone and guessing who it was about. One of the clues mentioned a home that was coloured white. It wasn’t until I figured out the answer –Obama – that I realized what the clue was referring to: the White House.
Metonymy is a literary technique where one word or phrase is substituted for a similarly related one. In the case of the White House, for example, it can be used to replace ‘The Government of the United States’ in a phrase such as ‘The White House will soon be announcing the newly elected President’.
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