synecdoche
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The situation was a perfect synecdoche for Hegseth’s self-inflicted Sispyphean task of trying to be a big man.
From Salon • Mar. 13, 2026
But it lured two million fair visitors, and, as we see, inspired children’s toys and books, before becoming a synecdoche for Paris itself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
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
You could spend a lifetime studying the building, but this book, the catalog of a 1995 exhibition of the photography of Édouard Baldus, is a serviceable synecdoche.
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2019
I know a great deal of it by heart, for I loved it long before I knew a metaphor from a synecdoche.
From The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Macy, John Albert
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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