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Things metonymy often describes ("metonymy ________")
How metonymy often is described ("________ metonymy")
- dramatic
- spatial
- regular
- original
- referential
- photographic
- chained
- simple
- similar
- same
- lacanian
- obvious
- infinite
- much
- splendid
- cultural
- only
- obscure
- common
- linguistic
- rhetorical
- cinematic
- natural
- slow
- conventional
- classical
- part
- easy
- symbolic
- second
- applied
- logical
- usual
- scriptural
- inclusive
- psychophysical
- mere
- visual
- unjust
- double
- endless
- circumscribable
- frequent
- poetic
- serial
- violent
- horizontal
- sacramental
- phallic
- mental
- fine
- extended
- metaphorical
- temporal
- post
- familiar
- ultimate
- realistic
- figurative
- typical
- interminable
- curious
- conceptual
- prototypical
- pure
- traditional
- reductive
- cosmic
- bold
- strange
- verbal
- complex
- radical
- artful
- whole
