Synecdoche [noun]
Definition of Synecdoche:
turn of expression
Synonyms of Synecdoche:
● Allegory
● Allusion
● Analogy
● Anticlimax
● Antithesis
● Bathos
● Comparison
● Conceit
● Device
● Euphemism
● Euphuism
● Exaggeration
● Expression
● Flourish
● Flower
● Hyperbole
● Image
● Imagery
● Irony
● Metaphor
● Ornament
● Parable
● Paradox
● Parallel
● Personification
● Rhetoric
● Sarcasm
● Satire
● Simile
● Analogue
● Understatement
● Adumbration
● Alliteration
● Anaphora
● Antistrophe
● Aposiopesis
● Apostrophe
● Asyndeton
● Communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
● Echoism
● Ellipsis
● Litotes
● Malapropism
● Manner of speaking
● Metonymy
● Onomatopoeia
● Oxymoron
● Proteron
● Trope
● Tropology
● Turn of phrase
● Way of speaking
Opposite/Antonyms of Synecdoche:
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Sentence/Example of Synecdoche:
Qm is one of the positions in a Namz and is here used by synecdoche for it.
Whether it be synecdoche, metaphor, or metonymy, there is still a figure.
Metalepsis carries us so far, but synecdoche must supplement it.
I did send for you to draw me a device, an Imprezza, by Synecdoche a Mott.
And apparently various causes might produce this Synecdoche.
Synecdoche puts a part for the whole, or a whole for the part; as, "The harbor was crowded with masts."
Metonymy and Synecdoche are nearly related and in this poem the examples are numerous.
Blind mouths: 'mouths' is used, by synecdoche, for gluttons, as the five preceding verses show.
Synecdoche is that figure of speech in which a part is put for the whole, or the whole for a part.
Synecdoche is a species of metonymy, and has the same effect of giving vividness.