| The living conditions in the military, of which the hospitals are a synecdoche, also evince this metonymic transformation. |
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| Night and Fog is formally constructed as a visual synecdoche, evoking a major chapter of history from a few traces remaining. |
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| Through a truly imperial application of synecdoche, this georgic trajectory of empire occludes the dark sides of commerce and conquest. |
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| Paradise Lost blurs harmonious sound and music and speech together, and they are all a synecdoche for the divine. |
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| He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus. |
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| In a work of literature Stewart's lies would constitute synecdoche, the rhetorical device in which a part stands for the whole. |
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| He, however, says that this substitution, along with many others, characterizes synecdoche. |
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| On the contrary, it uses their suffering as a synecdoche for all the loathsomeness in the world. |
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| Now, this is where it gets a bit sticky: synecdoche uses a part of something to stand in for a whole. |
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| Metonymy is closely related to synecdoche, the naming of a part for the whole or a whole for the part, and is a common poetic device. |
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| Through a simple graphic synecdoche the schematic figure of a bridge and the life and activity that it gives off are obtained. |
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| It should be made clear that India in this regard is a synecdoche. |
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| Although Burke's conventional definition of synecdoche sounds strikingly similar to metonymy, it functions for him as a corrective to metonymical excess. |
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| The veronica represents Christ's face and, by synecdoche, his entire body. |
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| After synecdoche, it will be impossible not to take notice of her talent. |
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| If commentators have concurred on the characterization of Reagan as a synecdoche, they have also noted his status as a signifier. |
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| The argument, particularly about double entry and especially as it gets closer to the present, tends to slide from causal analysis to synecdoche. |
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| Moyn then goes on to identify the emergence of the extermination camp as another synecdoche. |
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| In this case, the death of one white woman is a synecdoche of the multitudinous African deaths caused by genocide. |
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| There is definitely some overlap between the two concepts, but, put the simplest way, synecdoche typically refers to an already concrete image used for purely poetic and rhetorical purposes. |
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| In sensual love one can find the same phenomenon of psychological synecdoche. |
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| In her refusal to be conquered, Blue Sunday stands as a synecdoche for the Gullahs who, in maintaining distinct cultural and linguistic practices, resisted colonial rule. |
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| Moreover, our intercontinental cloud-translation experiment can be seen as something like a synecdoche for Russian poetry's general state of being. |
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