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What does synecdoche mean?

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Noun
  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole.
  2. (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech; synecdochy.
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He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus.
Paradise Lost blurs harmonious sound and music and speech together, and they are all a synecdoche for the divine.
Now, this is where it gets a bit sticky: synecdoche uses a part of something to stand in for a whole.
Through a simple graphic synecdoche the schematic figure of a bridge and the life and activity that it gives off are obtained.
It should be made clear that India in this regard is a synecdoche.
He, however, says that this substitution, along with many others, characterizes synecdoche.

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