Metonymy vs Apostrophe - What's the difference?
metonymy | apostrophe |
The use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object.
(countable) A metonym.
{{examples-right, caption=metonymy , examples=*The White House released its official report today. — "The White House" for "The presidential administration"
* The Crown has enacted a new social security policy. — "The Crown" for "The government of the United Kingdom".
* A crowd of fifty heads — where "head" stands for person.
* Put it on the plastic — material (plastic) for object (credit card), width=60%}} (orthography) The text character , which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
(rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
As nouns the difference between metonymy and apostrophe
is that metonymy is the use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object while apostrophe is the text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.metonymy
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(wikipedia metonymy)Noun
* The Crown has enacted a new social security policy. — "The Crown" for "The government of the United Kingdom".
* A crowd of fifty heads — where "head" stands for person.
* Put it on the plastic — material (plastic) for object (credit card), width=60%}}
