_Examples_: He is a slave to the _cup_. Strike for your _altars_ and
your _fires_. The _kettle boils,_ He rose and addressed the _chair_.
The _palace_ should not scorn the _cottage_. The watched _pot_ never
boils. The red _coats_ turned and fled. _Iron_ bailed and _lead_
rained upon the enemy. The _pen_ is mightier than the _sword_.
8. Synecdoche. There is a special kind of metonymy which is given the
dignity of a separate name. It is the substitution of the part for the
whole or the whole for the part. The value of it consists in putting
forward the thing best known, the thing that will appeal most powerfully
to the thought and feeling.
_Examples_: Come and trip it as you go, on the light fantastic _toe_.
American commerce is carried in British _bottoms_. He bought a hundred
_head_ of cattle. It is a village of five hundred _chimneys_.
He cried, "A sail, a sail!" The busy _fingers_ toll on.
Exercise.
Indicate the figure of speech used in each of the following sentences:
1. Come, seeling Night, scarf up the tender eye of pitiful Day.
2. The coat does not make the man.
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