synecdoche
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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 Mangold’s hands, parts become wholes and the exhibition a master class in synecdoche: the tree is the forest; the painter a human representative negotiating with the natural world.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2023
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
‘Hunger’ is put by synecdoche for hungry animals.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
Their fame has not eclipsed other injustices in Russia but highlighted them, in the tradition of opposition movements strategically promoting charismatic individuals, from Nelson Mandela to Ai Wei Wei, as synecdoches for an entire cause.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2012
Vocabulary lists containing synecdoche
Poetry: Literary Devices
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Rhetoric
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 4
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