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Metaphor is an obscure way of saying something. For example, the car crawled like a beetle. That not means car is a beetle, just the movement of the car. Metonymy is when two things are not similar, but there is a close relationship, we can use one thing take place of another thing.
metaphor
- analogy.
- image.
- symbol.
- allegory.
- emblem.
- hope.
- personification.
- similitude.
Difference Between Metaphor and Metonymy. Metaphor and metonymy are similar in various aspects but the major difference is that if a metaphor substitutes a concept with another, a metonymy selects a related term. So, if metaphor is for substitution, metonymy is for association. … So metonymy is a figure of speech.
Synonyms are words that are similar, or have a related meaning, to another word. They can be lifesavers when you want to avoid repeating the same word over and over. Also, sometimes the word you have in mind might not be the most appropriate word, which is why finding the right synonym can come in handy.
Synecdoche refers to the whole of a thing by the name of any one of its parts. For example, calling a car “wheels” is a synecdoche because a part of the car, its “wheels,” stands for the whole car.
A familiar Shakespearean example is Mark Antony’s speech in Julius Caesar in which he asks of his audience: “Lend me your ears.” Metonymy is closely related to synecdoche, the naming of a part for the whole or a whole for the part, and is a common poetic device.
Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. The common oxymoron phrase is a combination of an adjective proceeded by a noun with contrasting meanings, such as “cruel kindness,” or “living death”. However, the contrasting words/phrases are not always glued together.
Oxymoron. Good grief. … An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two words with contradictory meanings are placed side-by-side. Take “good grief.” Grief isn’t traditionally thought of as good, so the words are a paradox.
Noun. metanym (plural metanyms) (taxonomy) A name that is rejected because a valid name (based on another member) already exists for the same group.
Definition of allonym. 1 : a name that is assumed by an author but that actually belongs to another person. 2 : a work published under the name of a person other than the author.
An idiom is a metaphorical figure of speech, and it is understood that it is not a use of literal language. … All hands on deck is an idiom that is a call for everyone to take part in the work put before them, a command that everyone participate in a particular situation.
Palindrome Names
There have always been a number of names that are palindromes — spelled the same backwards and forwards, such as Ada, Ava, Hannah, Otto, Eve, Anna, Aviva, et al–but that differs from the Nevaeh model
An ananym is a word whose spelling is derived by reversing the spelling of another word. It is therefore a special type of anagram. There is a long history of names being coined as ananyms of existing words or names for entities related to the thing named by the ananym.
The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.
A man has been recorded spending more than three hours to pronounce what is supposedly the longest word in the English language. ‘Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine’ is the chemical name of ‘titin’ (also known as ‘connectin’) – the largest known protein. It has 189,819 letters.
The Most Difficult English Word To Pronounce
If English is your mother tongue, you probably never gave much thought to how challenging it can be to master English pronunciation as an adult. Still, there are English words that even natives struggle with.
One Reddit user opened up this can of worms, and after more than 5,000 submissions, the Reddit community came up with this list of “10 most difficult English words to pronounce”:
- Rural
- Otorhinolaryngologist
- Colonel
- Penguin
- Sixth
- Isthmus
- Anemone
- Squirrel
- Choir
- Worcestershire