Identify Metonymy
Can you lend me a hand?
What is a hand representing help?
All hands on deck!
What are hands representing sailors?
(crew, people, pirates)
This word is used to represent money or basic needs.
What is bread?
This word is used to represent a car.
What are wheels?
True or False: Metonymy is when a part represents the whole.
What is false?
The pen is mightier than the sword.
What is pen representing writing and sword representing violence?
They counted thirty sails on the horizon
What are sails representing ships?
This word is used to represent the movie industry.
What is Hollywood?
This word is used to represent a stage or platform.
What is the floor?
(Will also take podium)
Check out my new ride.
Metonymy or synecdoche?
What is metonymy?
She took the stage and captivated the audience.
What is stage representing performance?
He was put behind bars.
What is bars representing prison?
This word is used to represent the U.S. presidency or executive branch.
What is the White House?
This word is used to represent a whole person or a group of people.
What are heads?
(Will also take faces)
The kettle is boiling.
Metonymy or synecdoche?
What is synecdoche?
(water IN the kettle)
The suits are in an important meeting today.
What is suits representing business people?
He drew his steel, preparing for battle.
What is steel representing sword?
This word is used to represent journalists or the media.
What is the press?
This word is used to represent a person’s strength or effort.
What are muscles?
This phrase uses ‘boots on the ground’ to refer to soldiers.
Metonymy or synecdoche?
What is synecdoche?
The crown will fall if the rebellion succeeds.
What is crown representing monarchy?
(king, queen, royalty, power)
The nation celebrated after Germany won the World Cup.
What is Germany representing football team?
This word is used to represent the financial industry.
What is Wall Street?
This word is used to represent a bag.
(most commonly heard at grocery stores)
What is plastic/paper?
The sun smiled down on us.
Metonymy or synecdoche?
What is neither?