Friday, April 27, 2012

Synecdoche

Synecdoche: Figure of comparison in which a word standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing or vice versa.


Example: "Give us this day our daily bread." -Matthew 6:11

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  1. "I should have been a pair of ragged claws
    Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
    T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

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  2. "He placed his John Hancock on the document."

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  3. "The sputtering economy could make the difference if you're trying to get a deal on a new set of wheels."
    (Al Vaughters, WIVB.com, Nov. 21, 2008)

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  4. "Take thy face hence."
    -Shakespeare, Macbeth

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