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I love to read "Shakespeare." I put a lot of "sweat" into this assignment. These sentences use a figure of speech known as metonymy. When we use the name of one thing to stand for something closely related to it, that is metonymy. "I love to read Shakespeare" really means "... to read Shakespeare's plays and poems." "I put a lot of sweat into the assign- ment' really means "...a lot of hard work ..." Read the sentence and decide if the word or phrase is an example of metonymy: Have you read "wingspanens" lately? a. Yes, metonymy

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