Metaphor, metonymy and raising
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Metaphor is domain mapping. Metonymy is domain highlighting.
| He is a sheep's head. |
This saying meaning He is a fool. has:
- a metaphor: mapping sheep to fools
- a metonymy: head of a person is made equal to the person himself.