FIGURES BASED ON ASSOCIATION:
● Metonymy
● Synecdoche
● Transferred Epithet or Hypallage
● Allusion
METONYMY: substitution of one thing with another, when both of the things are
loosely associated with each other.
Examples:
England (English people) hath need of thee.
- Wordsworth
Who steals my purse (money) steals trash.
- Shakespeare
And Persia (people of Persia) hailed the favourite.
- Browning
SYNECDOCHE: substitution of one thing with another, when both of the things
are intimately associated with each other.
Examples:
All states can reach it, and all hands (men) conceive.
- Pope
I am out of humanity’s (man’s) reach.
- Cowper
Rather I would abjure all roofs (houses).
- Shakespeare
TRANSFERRED EPITHET OR HYPALLAGE: shifting of epithet from its
proper subject to another associated with it.
Examples:
His listless length at noontide would he stretch.
- Gray
A sleepless pillow is pressed by both; an anxious morning slowly dawned.
- Cowper
He passed a busy life.
● Metonymy
● Synecdoche
● Transferred Epithet or Hypallage
● Allusion
METONYMY: substitution of one thing with another, when both of the things are
loosely associated with each other.
Examples:
England (English people) hath need of thee.
- Wordsworth
Who steals my purse (money) steals trash.
- Shakespeare
And Persia (people of Persia) hailed the favourite.
- Browning
SYNECDOCHE: substitution of one thing with another, when both of the things
are intimately associated with each other.
Examples:
All states can reach it, and all hands (men) conceive.
- Pope
I am out of humanity’s (man’s) reach.
- Cowper
Rather I would abjure all roofs (houses).
- Shakespeare
TRANSFERRED EPITHET OR HYPALLAGE: shifting of epithet from its
proper subject to another associated with it.
Examples:
His listless length at noontide would he stretch.
- Gray
A sleepless pillow is pressed by both; an anxious morning slowly dawned.
- Cowper
He passed a busy life.
