Metonymy means borrowing one thing instead of another. It is a rhetorical method of borrowing people or things closely related to it when speaking or writing articles, rather than directly saying what you want to express.
The use of metonymy
Metonymy methods mainly include the following:
Partially generated whole
That is to say, replace the noumenon with the representative part of things.
If the green hills on both sides of the strait are opposite, the lonely sails come from the sun. (Looking at Tianmen Mountain from afar)
Replace the boat with a part of the sail.
Feature generation ontology
In other words, the name of the ontological thing is replaced by the characteristics and signs of the borrowing body (person or thing).
Such as: 100,000 banners to chop Yamaraja. (meiling three chapters)
It is a symbol rather than an ontology, and a "symbol" is used to replace the army or armed forces.
Concrete generation abstraction
For example, the south of the country has a history of ten years. (meiling three chapters)
The "beacon smoke" was originally a firework used for vigilance in ancient borders. Here it refers to war, which concretizes and visualizes the abstract concept of war.
Tool substitution ontology
Such as: 1. In the season of scare farming, eight out of ten households have set fire to their stocks and can't open the pot. (Yu)
"hoarding" is a tool for storing food, and "lighting at the bottom of hoarding" means lack of food; A "pot" is a tool for cooking. If you can't open the pot, you have no food.
Xiaoxiang is not metonymy. The word "Yijun is far away in Xiaoxiang Moon" is translated as "it is in the Xiangjiang River in Xiaoshui, far away". For example, Fan Zhongyan's "The Story of Yueyang Tower" refers to the Wuxia Gorge in the north and Xiaoxiang in the south, which means that num is not metonymy.