Exercise Your Figures > Exercise 9: Metonymy
a. So are we going for 'Tall Projections' today?
b. A whole hour of animated diving profits and rising losses. Mmm... Tempting.
February 11, 2013 |
Dattaprasad Godbole
Dattaprasad Godbole
Word Hero Chapter One
Kurt's line about the square root of rainbows (page 6) comes while the camera zooms in on a girl's rainbow-doodled math homework. The joke depends on a belonging trope--a metonymy, to be specific. Can you see how? How could you use this figure to critique a PowerPoint presentation?