synecdoche
Example Sentences
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The near-perfect overlay of the religious image with a political image is a visual synecdoche for the Revolution’s replacement of Christianity with the cults of Nature and Reason.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
In Darlington’s Devon neighborhood, the synecdoche for global habitat destruction is the arrival of a sign in a soon-to-be-former farm field: “Site Acquired for Development.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023
Baseball is practically a synecdoche for summer—the season of shared, relaxing stillness in the sun.
From Slate • May 22, 2020
The home, a nation unto itself, falls easily into the pitfalls of synecdoche.
From Salon • Mar. 21, 2020
Those founded on contiguity are metonymy, synecdoche, exclamation, hyperbole, apostrophe, and vision.
From Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by Painter, F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton)
