synecdoche

NOUN
  1. substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa
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How To Use synecdoche In A Sentence

  • But as any reader of the odes can attest, Neruda's incredible use of metaphor, simile and synecdoche, among other poetic techniques frequently confronts the reader unprepared, jolted by the sudden flash of creative spontaneity.
  • In a work of literature Stewart's lies would constitute synecdoche, the rhetorical device in which a part stands for the whole.
  • Through a truly imperial application of synecdoche, this georgic trajectory of empire occludes the dark sides of commerce and conquest.
  • Tropes are chiefly of four kinds, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
  • He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus.
  • There is a typology of rhetorical figures of speech made up of four tropes, they in turn govern the way we operate language: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
  • I use the expression ‘all mouth and no trousers’ to introduce my sixth-formers to the distinction between synecdoche and metonymy.
  • One step farther, and Theobald would have discovered the true solution: he only required to know that _the shoes_, by a figure of rhetoric called synecdoche, may stand for the whole character and attributes of Hercules, to have saved himself the trouble of conjecturing an ingenious, though infinitely worse word, as a substitute. Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
  • But Synecdoche, New York is not without its problems, the greatest of which is that it introduces a kind of endlessness that then consumes it. Bright Lights After Dark
  • Paradise Lost blurs harmonious sound and music and speech together, and they are all a synecdoche for the divine.
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