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I'm trying to remember the exact term for this example, "those are nice wheels." We know you're talking about a car, but you substitute it with a part of that whole, meaning the wheels representing the car. What exactly is that term again, I think it's a figure of speech.
I'm trying to remember the exact term for this example, "those are nice wheels." We know you're talking about a car, but you substitute it with a part of that whole, meaning the wheels representing the car. What exactly is that term again, I think it's a figure of speech.
This thing is called Metonymy...The substitution of a noun for another closely associated noun.
similarily, a camper would be called a "fifth wheel"
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