What's an example of synecdoche in a song lyrics?

Answer 1

The term "synecdoche" is a type of figure of speech. It can mean to use a word for a part as a whole, or an item as a substitute for an entire group, or to represent an object by its function. This is reflected by many idiomatic uses of words.

Examples:

The captain ordered all hands on deck. (here short for deckhands, or sailors)

Their eyes followed him wherever he went.

He lost his wheels for the weekend. (car)

The world treated him badly.

Twenty sails came into the harbor.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Few businesses refuse to accept plastic. (credit cards)

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears." (from Julius Caesar)

Answer 2

The term 'synecdoche' might seem unfamiliar but you would've surely come across such words or sentences in written text. It can be defined as a figure of speech where part of a sentence describes the entirety. The usage of synecdoche, thus, emphasizes a sentence delivering the right context and embellishing the literary work. In addition to this, synecdoches also add variation, elegance, floweriness and present the language luxuriously. Depending upon where it is portrayed, either a part or the whole of the synecdoche is used to describe certain forms of poetry or instances in literature. Once you have a clear idea of what the words indicate then its significance becomes more evident. Even mythic characters, Gods and literary personalities like Hamlet, Othello, Desdemona, Romeo, Juliet and Macbeth have been viewed as synecdochical. This figure of speech is also considered a sub-class of metonymy (where one term is not called by its actual name instead it is referred to something closely associated with it).

Answer 3

Here are some examples of synecdoche:

1)The ship was lost with all hands.

2)His parents bought him a new set of wheels.

3)There sits my animal guarding the door to the hen house.

4)He hurled the barbed weapon at the whale.

5)The rustler bragged he absconded with five hundred head of longhorns.

6)He has many mouths to feed.

7)The little lady in Cleveland couldn't pay her heating bill.

8)If I had some wheels I would put on a new thread and ask for Jenny's hand in marriage.

9)He shall think differently,the musketeer threatened, when he feels the point of my steel.

10) His eye met hers as she sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about her.

Answer 4

"Like a Virgin" is an example of synecdoche in song lyrics. The song was released in the 1980s by Madonna.

Answer 5

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