Essays on Metonymy

Prototype is the characteristic instance of any category, so the concept of it helps to explain the meanings of the word in terms of comparing the words with the closest examples. Prototype is the best representative of cognitive or linguistic category. The theory of prototypes developed in parallel in cognitive psychology, ethnolinguistics, semantics, cognitive anthropology, and philosophy. As well as many linguistic theories, which roots go back to psychological or philosophical teachings prototypical semantics owes intensive development and experimentation in the field of cognitive psychology, the result of which was the theory of prototypes and prototypical representations about the ...

I, Being born a Woman and Distressed is a poem written by an outstanding American poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay. She, with the help of the narrator, introduces the theme that concerns the hardships of being a woman in the society that is ruled and dominated by men. The feminist tone reveals the woman’s inner feelings towards the societal double standards and her craving for equality. In the first line of the poem Edna St. Vincent Millay introduces the narrator: “I, being born a woman and distressed”. (Millay) It is a woman and she delivers it to the ...

A. Six Samples of Figurative Language

Figurative language is the use of figures of speech to say something in a way that is not obvious. Samples of figurative language include the use of metaphors, similes, metonymy, paradox, irony, symbols, humor, exaggeration among other tropes in fresh new ways that appeal to the readers’ imagination. The use of figurative language in any piece of writing is very important for it serves a number of purposes. However, style is constantly affected by, among other things, language itself, culture and the tradition of a people’s rhetoric. For its effectiveness therefore, style should vary across cultures depending on the circumstance as ...