Which excerpt is an example of metonymy?
a.
“since number five is out of the bathroom now,”
b.
“we think of lukewarm water and hope to get in it.”
c.
“i shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence”
d.
“i watch you wrapped up like garbage”

The answer is:  A). “Since Number Five is out of the bathroom now,”

when making an inference, the reader should be sure to support the inference with

evidence

a is an educated guess about what will happen.

c. prediction

when new information proves that a reader's prediction is wrong, the reader should

make a new prediction based on the new information.