Different figures of speech 1, metonymy is a figure of speech, which means that you don't directly say the name of the thing you want to say, but call it by the name of another thing related to it.
Metonymy, as its name implies, is to borrow one thing to replace another, so most of the borrowed pronouns are nouns. When using it, we must consider the legitimacy and universality of substitution, try to simplify it as much as possible, and achieve smooth meaning. Moreover, metonymy at this time is generally similar to seeing the big from the small, seeing the big from the small, reflecting the big situation or seeing the big from the small, making the sentence more vivid and concrete.
2. Metonymy is a metaphor. Metaphor is not ontology, and neither ontology nor metaphor appears, so A (ontology) is directly called B (metaphor). Metonymy, because only the appearance of vehicle can produce more profound and implicit expression effect and make the language more concise.