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Figures of naming

There are three figures of naming and they are:

  1. onomatopoeia
  2. antonomasia
  3. metonymy

You can read more about these techniques by either clicking on the above hyperlinks or reading more about them below.

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Antonomasia
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Acknowledgement

The above information on individual rhetorical techniques is reproduced from the website “Silva Rhetoricae” (www.rhetoric.byu.edu ) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Credit for this content lies with Professor Gideon O Burton of Brigham Young University.