Antonomasia was the act of calling someone by another's name to express a quality they shared.
In 2382, when Sam Rutherford mentioned Brad Boimler's constant use of an "alt-universe" PADD, Boimler sarcastically called him a "real Ronald B. Moore" (i.e. a comedian) in an attempt to feign denial. Later, Beckett Mariner claimed one didn't have to be a Dixon Hill (a detective) to know that something bad had happened in Quadralon's trashed room. (LD: "Of Gods and Angles")
Mariner, upon realizing she was starting to enjoy science missions, began to wax eloquent about her reasons for doing so and realized that she was starting to "sound like a real Boimler right now", which he felt was a good thing. (LD: "Starbase 80?!")
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| Adages • Allusion • Antonomasia • Aphorism • Axiom • Cliché • Colloquialism • Euphemism • Hyperbole • Idiom • Metaphor • Motto • Onomatopoeia • Oxymoron • Personification • Profanity • Proverb • Quotation • Reduplication • Rhetoric • Rhetorical question • Saying • Simile • Slang |
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