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Metaphor Between the lower east side tenementsthe sky is a snotty handkerchief.(Marge Piercy, The Butt of Winter) The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner.(Cynthia Ozick, Rosa) But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.(William Sharp, The Lonely Hunter) Mens words are bullets, that their enemies take up and make use of against them.(George Savile, Maxims of State) A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind.(Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors) The rain came down in long knitting needles.(Enid Bagnold, National Velvet) Lenny: Hey, maybe there is no cabin. Maybe its one of them metaphorical things.Carl: Oh yeah, yeah. Like maybe the cabin is the place inside each of us, created by our goodwill and teamwork.Lenny: Nah, they said there would be sandwiches.(The Simpsons) Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.(Austin OMalley, Keystones of Thought) It would be more illuminating . . . to say that the metaphor creates the similarity than to say that it formulates some similarity antecedently existing.(Max Black, Models and Metaphors, 1962) Metonymy Many standard items of vocabulary are metonymic. A red-letter day is important, like the feast days marked in red on church calendars. . . . On the level of slang, a redneck is a stereotypical member of the white rural working class in the Southern U.S., originally a reference to necks sunburned from working in the fields.(Connie Eble, Metonymy. The Oxford Companion to the English Language, 1992) Detroit is still hard at work on an SUV that runs on rain forest trees and panda blood.(Conan OBrien) Metonymy is common in cigarette advertising in countries where legislation prohibits depictions of the cigarettes themselves or of people using them.(Daniel Chandler, Semiotics. Routledge, 2007) I stopped at a bar and had a couple of double Scotches. They didnt do me any good. All they did was make me think of Silver Wig, and I never saw her again.