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synecdoche

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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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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to synecdoche, such as: adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, and analogy.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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