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Meanings of synecdoche in anglès

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sinècdoque

Figure of speech.

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          Usage of synecdoche in anglès
          1
          It's a neat synecdoche for Drop Everything, which is a biennial cultural event.
          The Irish Times
          2
          You can call them fiction, and take the curios as synecdoche.
          The Guardian
          3
          Our intellectual sin is synecdoche, the putting a part truth for a whole truth.
          A Hero and Some Other Folks
          4
          I should dump some metonym and buy into synecdoche futures.
          One of our Thursdays is missing
          5
          They spelled from the grammars, hyperbole, synecdoche, and epizeuxis.
          Laddie: A True Blue Story
          6
          Nor let us forget Vegas's synecdoche and beating heart.
          Consider the lobster: and other essays
          7
          Two of the seasonal sacrifices are thus specified, by synecdoche, for all the four.]
          The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry / From the Sacred Books of the...
          8
          Almost everything people have ever been or done is represented here, thanks to the magic of synecdoche.
          Wired
          9
          This is truly bringing synecdoche, the art of substituting a part for the whole, to new heights.
          The Irish Times
          10
          Besides, the custom of speech is well known that by the same word we sometimes comprehend by synecdoche the cause and effects.
          The Apology of the Augsburg Confession
          11
          It is a little over a decade since Charlie Kaufman dared to unleash a film with "synecdoche" in the title.
          The Irish Times
          12
          No man uses figures of speech with more propriety because he knows that one figure is called a metonymy and another a synecdoche.
          Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
          13
          In Moonlight, a whole childhood conspires to drive a man to become a numb synecdoche of all that has blighted his own upbringing.
          The Guardian
          14
          From the beginning, "the roof" has been architecture's great synecdoche; to have "a roof over one's head" has been to have a home.
          A place of my own: the architecture of daydreams
          15
          Dinky-Dunk has taken Mrs. Dixon home and come back with a brand-new "hand," which, of course, is prairie-land synecdoche for a new hired man.
          The Prairie Wife
          16
          And apparently various causes might produce this Synecdoche.
          The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 / A Mag...
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          Translations for synecdoche
          portuguès
          sinédoque
          Synecdoche through the time