Synecdoche Vs Metonymy Quotes & Sayings

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song! — Ann Reed

When you think you know it all, there's not much that you'll learn. — Ralph Marston

When you make illustrations, you're supposed to have a subtext; you're not just communicating words - you're actually adding another story altogether. — Peggy Rathmann

Now, for the first time, I began to be aware of my heart, the heart itself: and with this awareness, conscious terror came. I realized that I knew nothing whatever about the way we are put together; and I realized that what I did not know might be in the process of killing me. — James Baldwin

She knew enough to take a few steps back from the relationship when things got particularly combustive. — Shelly Branch

It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else. — Suzanne Farrell

Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks. — P. J. O'Rourke

Italy's siren call lures us more and more. — Frances Mayes

I want people to fall in love with my voice before my image. — Jessica Simpson

I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there. — Prince

Don't follow the mind. Don't follow the body. Follow the Conscience. That is the main principle of this text. So we should follow our Conscience. — Sathya Sai Baba

The bookworm - "one of the teeth of time," as Hooke put it - is no longer familiar to ordinary readers, but the ancients knew it very well. — Stephen Greenblatt

Solar Power Seen Meeting 20% of Needs by 2000; Carter May Seek Outlay Boost — Walt Mossberg

When I grew up, and I think about City Council, I look at the men and women then - these were people who just wanted to be a part of the community and give something back. They weren't necessarily trying to use it as a steppingstone to something else. I looked up to those people. — Brad Wenstrup

If you don't know an answer, a fact, a statistic - make it up on the spot. — Paul Watson

Here's to all volunteers, those dedicated people who believe in all work and no pay. — Robert Orben

Pity the poor screenwriter, for he cannot be a poet. He cannot use metaphor and simile, assonance and alliteration, rhythm and rhyme, synecdoche and metonymy, hyperbole and meiosis, the grand tropes. Instead, his work must contain all the substance of literature but not be literary. A literary work is finished and complete within itself. A screenplay waits for the camera. If not literature, what then is the screenwriter's ambition? To describe in such a way that as a reader turns pages, a film flows through the imagination. — Robert McKee