The wind is now
a roaring, smashing
monster of destruction,
raking all man's work
from the valleys,
from the vales,
and sends them spinning,
broken flying -
but all of that is
not its core,
its center is in truth
eternal stillness
bright blue skies
and all you hear
are gentle whispers
far away
and unimportant.
By Silvia Hartmann
Synecdoche is a type of metonymy
I just had this question in school. It is false, Synecdoche is not a type of irony.
The cast of Synecdoche - 2011 includes: Keith David
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All hands on deck is an example of synecdoche. Give us this day our daily bread is a famous synecdoche that is always used. Lend me your ears and gray beard are other examples. And also the phrase new set of wheels is a good example of synecdoche.
Synecdoche is a literary device that involves describing something based on part of it. An example might be referring to champagne as "bubbly." The effect of synecdoche is to emphasize particular qualities of the subject in question.
An antonym of "synecdoche" is "metonymy." While synecdoche involves using a part of something to represent the whole (or vice versa), metonymy involves substituting the name of one thing with the name of something closely associated with it. For example, using "the crown" to refer to monarchy is metonymy, whereas using "the wheels" to refer to a car is synecdoche.
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Well, honey, a synecdoche is when a part of something is used to represent the whole. So, a synecdoche about cats could be saying "paws" when you mean the whole cat. But let's be real, cats pretty much rule the internet, so just about anything feline-related could work as a synecdoche for those furry little divas.
Synecdoche is not an example of imagery; rather, it is a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole, or vice versa. While imagery involves descriptive language that appeals to the senses to create vivid mental pictures, synecdoche focuses on the relationship between a part and its entirety. For instance, referring to a car as "wheels" is synecdoche, but it does not inherently create an image in the way that descriptive imagery does.
Synecdoche is when the term for a part of something refers to the whole thing, or vice versa. One example would be calling a ship a sail. Another would be the poem Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost. The woods in the poem are called woods although they are meant to represent the journey through life.