metonymy

Description
A device which uses a word to identify or associate it indirectly with which it is closely related.

Annotated Examples

That’s not history— that’s a story, designed to teach us who to hate and who to obey, what god to worship and what flag to fight for and what color eyes are the most beautiful. It’s a story that made a continent into a kingdom into an empire.” — Harrow. A, The Everlasting

Effect: God, flag, eye color stand in for religion, nationalism, and racial ideology.