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synecdoche
noun as in figure of speech
Weak matches
- 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
Example Sentences
They became a synecdoche for the woman herself: conservative, intimidating, feminine.
Reddit is a synecdoche for the Internet: a set of tools for sharing and organizing content.
Sex appeal,” Levy writes, “has become a synecdoche of all appeal.
After Synecdoche, it will be impossible not to take notice of her talent.
Synecdoche puts a part for the whole, or a whole for the part; as, "The harbor was crowded with masts."
Blind mouths: 'mouths' is used, by synecdoche, for gluttons, as the five preceding verses show.
Synecdoche is a species of metonymy, and has the same effect of giving vividness.
When this relation is that of a part to the whole or of the whole to a part, the figure is synecdoche.
The synecdoche, in which a part is put for the whole, as the sword for war, is in its nature essentially a metonymy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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