There is a peculiar energy in this figure similar to that in the former. The figurative name denotes the subject to be an effect by suggesting its cause.
4. Two things being intimately connected, the proper name of the one employ’d figuratively to signify the other.
Day for light. Night for darkness. Hence, A sudden night. Winter for a storm at sea.
Interea magno misceri murmure pontum,
Emissamque Hyemem sensit Neptunus.
Æneid. i. 128.
This last figure would be too bold for a British writer, as a storm at sea is not inseparably connected with winter in this climate.
5. A word proper to an attribute employ’d figuratively to denote the subject.
Youth and beauty for those who are young and beautiful:
Youth and beauty shall be laid in dust.
Majesty for the King:
What art thou, that usurp’st this time of night,
Together with that fair and warlike form,
In which the Majesty of buried Denmark
Did sometime march?
Hamlet, act 1. sc. 1.