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Meanings of synecdoche in English
Usage of synecdoche in English
1
It's a neat synecdoche for Drop Everything, which is a biennial cultural event.
2
You can call them fiction, and take the curios as synecdoche.
3
Our intellectual sin is synecdoche, the putting a part truth for a whole truth.
4
I should dump some metonym and buy into synecdoche futures.
5
They spelled from the grammars, hyperbole, synecdoche, and epizeuxis.
6
Nor let us forget Vegas's synecdoche and beating heart.
7
Two of the seasonal sacrifices are thus specified, by synecdoche, for all the four.]
8
Almost everything people have ever been or done is represented here, thanks to the magic of synecdoche.
9
This is truly bringing synecdoche, the art of substituting a part for the whole, to new heights.
10
Besides, the custom of speech is well known that by the same word we sometimes comprehend by synecdoche the cause and effects.
11
It is a little over a decade since Charlie Kaufman dared to unleash a film with "synecdoche" in the title.
12
No man uses figures of speech with more propriety because he knows that one figure is called a metonymy and another a synecdoche.
13
In Moonlight, a whole childhood conspires to drive a man to become a numb synecdoche of all that has blighted his own upbringing.
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.
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.
16
And apparently various causes might produce this Synecdoche.
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Synecdoche through the time