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Synecdoche

noun
1.
Substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa.





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"Synecdoche" Quotes from Famous Books



... SYNECDOCHE. The using of the name of a part for that of the whole, the name of the whole for that of a part, or the using of a definite number for an indefinite, is called, in rhetoric, synecdoche. "The bay was covered with sails"; i. e., with ships. "The man was old, careworn, ...
— The Verbalist • Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
... 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, ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 • Various


Words linked to "Synecdoche" :   face, fireside, figure of speech, synecdochical, synecdochic, figure, hearth, image, trope


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