Metonymy

definition, is but an exaggeration of these human gestures; the choreographer can manipulate the movement presented to the audience to ensure the successful communication of ideas without words. While the absence of words can be a powerful tool on stage, it creates challenges when dancers try to communicate to each other ideas about the field of dance, or when they attempt to communicate their concepts to the audience through movement. Therefore, metaphor and metonymy adopt vital roles to resolve these problems. By rooting abstract ideas about creativity or complex ideas in concepts or movements that the audience is more familiar with, metaphor and metonymy become ideal tools for bridging this communication barrier. Lynne Anne Blom and L. Tarin Chaplin’s book, The Intimate Art of Choreography, shows that dancers utilize metaphor when analyzing the conception of an idea for a choreographic phrase, that the movement employs metonymy to communicate ideas to the audience, and that the structure of the dance exercise metonymy to communicate the progression of the story or concept in the dance. When Blom and Chaplin discuss the process of producing a novel idea for a choreographic phrase, they metaphorically refer to the dancers’ creativity and inspiration as a fluid material in a container that the dancer must then metamorphose into external movements and expression. The concepts of creativity and inspiration are so abstract that they become particularly difficult for the authors…

The Analysis of the Three Poems “My Papa’s Waltz”, “My Father’s Hats” and “Those Winter Sundays” are poems which are real exciting and express the love of fathers towards their kids. In these poems they describe to us the friendship between children and their fathers. The poem “My Papa’s Waltz” explains how a young boy was dancing waltz music with his drunken father. The young son appeared to enjoy having fun with his father while dancing despite the fact that he kept on chafing his ear on his…

Once, I heard my mom on the phone with my Grammy. I heard my mom tell my Grammy that she should not come over to our house in the snow because she could not afford “even a fender bender.” She explained to my Grammy that the trip just was not worth it. I remember spending the rest of the evening worried about how I would help my Grammy pay for a new fender bender since she could not afford one. As a child and now teenager, it is easy for me to misunderstand phrases and figures of speech that I…

There is a lot of repetition in both books and they all serve an important role, a face value, one and a much more figurative one. Both authors use a very present metonymy, in “Extremely Loud and Incredible Close” Foer uses Oskar’s creative mind for metonymous purposes. Him being autistic it may appear that his constant inventing is just a sign on the disorder, but his inventing serves a purpose of being metonymous with his pain and emotional distress he is currently experiencing. “I invented a…

literarydevices.com/litotes/.  Metonymy Definition: Metonymy is a figure of speech in which the original name of something is substituted with a different label that is related in meaning to the original object or concept. Metonymies and synecdoches often get mixed up due to overlapping characteristics. They have similarities, but they have crucial parts that differentiate them. A synecdoche references an object by the name of something that is a part of it. In a metonymy, the title used to…

He was enslaved at a young age and endured much hardship throughout the years (Douglass 5). Published Sample Analysis: Abolishment was a main theme in The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Douglass enforces the theme by using the metonymy of a “bloodstained gate,” which is closely linked to the entrance of hell (Douglass 5). This connection is utilized to show how the slaves endured horrendous conditions, comparable to a living hell. It also adds poetic detail to the passage and…

“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly,”( line1), introducing the earth as a female in the beginning of the poem“Sleeping In The Forest” was a bold move made by Mary Oliver. The poet uses metonymy, personification, and symbolism to move the direction of the audiences thought of a forest into a whole new idea of peace and softness. Her main idea is to show how men view women in their full integrity through the correspondence of a dark forest and a woman. The speaker is…

new concept of linguistics. He said that language moved on every time and then created their own forms and never static. Every word, every grammatical element, proverbs, sounds and accents configured which was changed slowly and this was the ways how a language could long lasting. This concept of language made the other linguists interested. The change of meaning could happen because of some reasons, according to Millet a meaning could change easily because of the discontinuous from one…

In the poem “White Comedy” by. Benjamin Zephaniah, it talks about how a black man,in particular, is talking about white people and how they are acting in a negative way towards the black community. Influence, is what you want to feel, not what you need to feel. Benjamin Zephaniah uses similes, imagery, diction metonymy,and a little bit of allusion, in the poem “White Comedy”, in order to show what the speaker is going through, this tough time in his life. First, in Benjamin Zephaniah's poem…

In this metaphor, America is not a song, but an idea of freedom and quality which Hughes does not have in the present. He then notes how he is “the darker brother”. This analogy is meant to contextualize the poem as one being given by a black American in a time when race determines your role. He then notes how he is sent “to eat in the kitchen” when company arrives. Hughes is using a form of metonymy where the company represents the white Americans, and the black person being sent to the kitchen…