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Metonymy: the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant, for example suit for business executive, or the track for horse racing .
Prisoner known as “The Strangler” for his many viscious deeds is led to the gallows. A woman breaks through rabid crowd, throws herself onto him. “Strangle me, strangle me!” she begs and kisses into his neck; he breaks hers. 
Dancefloor full of deaf culture folk. Moved by music, sign language speakers on the dancefloor make spontaneous gestures, and those gestures for them are laden with words, meanings. Thus a new form of surrealist poetry is formed. or: a sign language speaker observes non- sign language speakers dancing on a dance floor, and interprets/translates their movements (which the dancers do not know are laden with language) 
A person to whom one can give neither presents (for they lose them) nor memories (for they lose them), for whom there is no sustaining familiarity, hope, or connection—yet whom one loves. 
Two people mate who are from the same totem clan (their totem is what they fear; so two people who fear the same thing). This is taboo. The fruit of their transgression is a child who is an outcast; something about the totem and not fearing it. Can’t find anything she fears, so totemless. The other girls are taken into the hut and danced, but she was far older than them now.
Fallen angels copulate with mortals who then birth giants (demigods).

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