Metonymy

the current Thane of Cawdor at the time was alive, he asks Angus and Ross why he was named the Thane of Cawdor. There are numerous literary devices associated with this quote with the obvious being the use of metaphor; however, more specifically, metonymy is used since the “robes” can be related with the Thane. Alliteration is also used with the first words “The” and “Thane”. There is also a layer of dramatic irony since we know that the Thane of Cawdor is about to be killed while Macbeth…

Renzo D. Lasam Angelica De Asis-Tomintz Lit14 R18 March 4, 2016 Understanding the Dramatic Situation in Angela Manalang-Gloria Soledad In every culture, there are norms, patterns and standards that are expected of a group, which dictate how an individual’s social behavior and way of thinking is. To talk about issues and to do acts that go against these norms, more often than not, merits judgment from the community and are defined as ‘taboo’. In the Philippines, it is part of the norms of…

The author uses the occurrences on the exterior of the bus as metonymies that showcase the dynamic of city life. The events outside are perceived by Lakshmi through visual and auditory imagery as senses such as smell, touch and taste are cut off by the windows of the bus. Upon looking out of the window, the first thing…

The idiom get out of hand is “motivated by the metonymy–metaphor pair THE HAND STANDS FOR CONTROL– CONTROL IS HOLDING IN THE HAND.” Mouth Idioms Idiomatic expressions involving the mouth (including teeth and lips) are quite abundant, if we take into consideration the fact that it is the human organ responsible for the act of speaking (Goossens 29). The pair of idioms open/shut one's mouth are expressed by the metonym TO SPEAK IS TO USE ONE'S MOUTH (TONGUE, LIPS) and it points out the mouth…

Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960) is a pseudo snuff film centred on the act of voyeurism. Although, Peeping Tom predates the horror subgenre, slashers, it still upholds the psychosexual elements that reside in such films (Clover). Released in the same year as Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960), Peeping Tom can be cited as the aforementioned British equivalent, as the male central characters seem to share sadistic and psychopathic qualities. This film proves to be a self-reflexive metafilm as it…

Objectives of the Study In this study titled ‘The Imagery on the Concept of Alienation in TV Chandran Films: A Semiological Enquiry’, a list of recurrent features –with even thematic continuities –even with porous, dissolving identity of his protagonists of various films, are put under scanner to delineate the commonness positioned by the ‘auteur’ in T V Chandran. The point on this occasion is not to choose between these opposing readings in various narrative texts, but to recognize how an…

Figurative language and figures of speech have two functions: first, to add vividness and immediacy; second, to interpret the object described or the attitude towards it. For example, instead of saying that a girl’s hair is black and glossy, you can stir the imagination of the reader if you say that the girl’s hair is black as a raven(simile). Examples: 1. We wouldn’t move a muscle; the room was an oven and we felt we could be roasted bread my moment. (Metaphor) 2. The river showed an insane…

to 2011 constituting his sample. The methodology applied for the same was semiology. Paradigmatic and synatagmatic analysis of the film text, and examined various signs and its signification, detonative and connotative means of the text, metaphor, metonymy, binary oppositions, dreams and hallucinations, historical allegories, codes, historical parallels, and Marxian analysis have been deployed to find out the signs representing cultural hegemony, false consciousness and persistence of…

Thus the London cityscape and its inhabitants are depicted by a macrocosm of self-contained “thousand[s of] worlds” of people that share its space. These “places” and people lack specificity but are separate and “distinct” from each other, forming metaphorical “worlds” coinciding within the city. Dickens presents a conceptual framework to understand the social body of London through its division of people as microcosms who are “almost unconscious” of other’s existence beyond their own. His…

Vocabulary Test “Admonish the interlopers who vehemently despair over their plight of…” blasphemy. This confusing, jumbled sentence represents the vocabulary units as a whole , this school year. Although we, students, may understand these words now, their significance in this course is not as understood. Out of the 140 words we have learned this year, there were less than five on the AP exam: “choleric, vicarious, urbane, etc.” and probably just 10 in any form of work relating to this class…