Thesaurus / synecdoche
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synonyms for synecdoche
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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How to use synecdoche in a sentence
Synecdoche puts a part for the whole, or a whole for the part; as, "The harbor was crowded with masts."
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTERBlind mouths: 'mouths' is used, by synecdoche, for gluttons, as the five preceding verses show.
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PROSE AND POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTONHIRAM CORSONSynecdoche is a species of metonymy, and has the same effect of giving vividness.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTERWhen this relation is that of a part to the whole or of the whole to a part, the figure is synecdoche.
JOURNEYS THROUGH BOOKLAND, VOL. 10CHARLES HERBERT SYLVESTERThe synecdoche, in which a part is put for the whole, as the sword for war, is in its nature essentially a metonymy.
COMPANION TO THE BIBLEE. P. BARROWSSynecdoche is that figure of speech in which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERWhether it be synecdoche, metaphor, or metonymy, there is still a figure.
HISTORY OF THE GREAT REFORMATION, VOLUME IVJ. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNMetalepsis carries us so far, but synecdoche must supplement it.
A HISTORY OF EPIDEMICS IN BRITAIN, VOLUME II (OF 2)CHARLES CREIGHTONI did send for you to draw me a device, an Imprezza, by Synecdoche a Mott.
THE WORKS OF JOHN MARSTONJOHN MARSTONBut probably the ministers thought it to be another case of synecdoche.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOL. XII. SEPTEMBER, 1863, NO. LXXI.VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SYNECDOCHE
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.