Metonymy (me-ton’-y-my): Reference to something or someone by naming one of its attributes. [This may include effects or any of the four Aristotelian causes {efficient/maker/inventor, material, formal/shape, final/purpose}.]
Don’t iron your ideas so flat that they sound like cicadas humming somewhere in Kansas!
Damn! I don’t even know if they’ve got cicadas in Kansas–but you get my point, right?
Go for TA-DA instead of HMMMMM–more people will listen, and that’s half the battle!
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Definition courtesy of “Sliva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu). Bracketed text added by Gorgias.
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