Now we are getting to the “fine print” and the difficult to pronounce! There is no claim made here that these are major poetic forms in the Bible. But when we come upon them, we need to know what to do with them, so it is entirely appropriate to take stock of them. Metonymy consists of naming something by means of something else to with which it is closely associated. Some handbooks call it “substitute naming” because a word is substituted in place of the actual thing