Read the sentence and answer the question. After confirming news of the Prince's engagement to Lady Violet, the
Crown issued an official proclamation that created a media storm.
This sentence uses which figurative device?

Select one:

- Metonymy
- Synecdoche
- Metaphor
- Apostrophe

Metonymy

Explanation:

The first thing I want to look at is the definition of each figurative device.

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.

Synecdoche - a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).

Metaphor - a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Apostrophe - a speech or address to a person who is not present or to a personified object, such as Yorick's skull in Hamlet.

After looking at these definitions I have concluded that the correct option is metonymy referincing to "Crown" as being a replacement to the royal family or the king in either case.

you need to explain that more, your grammer just needs to be close to perfect.

evertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable.

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