“Hollywood” vis-à-vis the film industry, e.g.

There was once a man named Jack who loved solving crossword puzzles. One day, he was stuck on a particularly tricky clue that read ‘”Hollywood” vis-à-vis the film industry, e.g.’ Jack puzzled over it for hours but still couldn’t figure out the answer.

Feeling defeated, he decided to take a break and go for a walk. As he was strolling down the street, he noticed some street performers putting on a show. There was a magician who made a rabbit disappear, a juggler who tossed fiery batons, and an acrobat who did daring stunts on a trapeze.

Suddenly, it hit Jack. The performers he was watching were all using metonyms. The magician wasn’t really making the rabbit disappear, he was making it “vanish”. The juggler wasn’t actually tossing fiery batons, he was tossing “fire”. And the acrobat wasn’t doing stunts on a trapeze, she was doing them on a “swing”.

Finally, the crossword clue made sense to Jack. Hollywood was a metonym for the film industry because both referred to the same thing, but from different perspectives. Hollywood was the physical location where many movies were made, while the film industry encompassed all the people, companies, and organizations that were involved in making movies.

Thrilled to have solved the puzzle, Jack returned home and filled in the answer: METONYM. From then on, whenever he saw a street performer using a metonym, he couldn’t help but smile and think of the clever clue that had stumped him for so long.