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2. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.”

Julius Caesar, Act I, William Shakespeare

Here are the definitions of three figures of speech:

- metonymy: a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is called not by its own name but rather by the name of something associated in meaning with that thing or concept.

- barbarism: a mistake in the form of a word or in its usage.

- euphemism: a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.

“Ears” is an instance of