synecdoche: substitution of a part for the whole.
I couldn't find out much about this , maybe the guys here have some good examples I can learn from?
Kt
Then how is "the pen is mightier than the sword" also an example of syndoche?Perhaps "The Crown" is a good example.
I think another way people do this is by including a description of the person in a type of irreverently formal title of address.
Mr. Twirly-mustache is always such a buzz-kill.
Reebox Jr. better start paying as much attention in world history class as he does on the basketball court!
...etc.
-Tim
Hmmm . . . the definition seems to be more comprehensive--several related types of substitutions:. . .synecdoche: substitution of a part for the whole.
Kt
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
synecdoche
SYLLABICATION: syn·ec·do·che
PRONUNCIATION: sĭ-nĕk'də-k
NOUN: A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English synodoches, from Medieval Latin synodoche, alteration of Latin synecdochē, from Greek sunekdokhē, from sunekdekhesthai, to take on a share of : sun-, syn- + ekdekhesthai, to understand ( ek-, out of; see eghs in Appendix I + dekhesthai, to take; see dek- in Appendix I).
OTHER FORMS: syn'ec·doch'ic (sĭn'ek-dŏk'ĭk) , syn'ec·doch'i·cal (-ĭ-kəl) —ADJECTIVE
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Sorry, just couldn't resist that!Attention all hands! If you find any cutthroats or theives, do not let them feel your steel, but call for the law.
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