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synecdoche - Encyclopedia.com synecdoche, figure of speech, a species of metaphor, in which a part of a person or thing is used to designate the whole—thus, "The house was built by 40 hands" for "The house was built by 20 people." See metonymy. Synecdoche is a figure that substitutes a part for... Synecdoche, Tropic Violence, and Shakespeare's Imitatio in Titus Andronicus. www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-synecdoc.html   (898 words)

Wordwizard Clubhouse - substitute for intended subject [[synecdoche & metonymy]] SYNECDOCHE is defined as “a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for the part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ‘ten sails’ for ‘ten ships’ or ‘a Croesus’ for ‘a rich man.’” Fifthly, in synecdoche, a further complication is that sub - sub-set structures etc are conceivable - thus "the Crown" represents "the Monarchy" represents "the Queen" can represent "the Queen and Her immediate advisors"... The difference between synecdoche and metonymy is that in metonymy the word you employ is linked to the concept you are really talking about, but isn’t actually a part of it. www.wordwizard.com /ch_forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6593   (1244 words)

Synecdoche in Music The similarity of this to the rhetorical figure synecdoche (the use of a part to represent a whole) leads me to call this understanding of representation "synecdochic," and the subject of this paper is to set forth the bases of such representation in music, exploring particularly its time-based essence. Synecdochic quotation is the quintessential combination of macro and micro time scale in the most temporally oriented of the arts. Musical synecdoche, by focusing associatively the "weight of the past" in sharply delimited compositional moments, carefully planned by their designers, can reduce even the most dulled sense to a heightened awareness of one's situatedness in the world, one's all- too-brief moment of life in comparison with all that has gone before, all that may continue. www.sas.upenn.edu /~rjudd/syn.html   (2751 words)

Synecdoche   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Synecdoche: A figure by which a more comprehensive term is used for a less comprehensive or vice versa; as whole for part or part for whole, genus for species or species for genus, etc. Indeed, the formal frame of any visual image (painting, drawing, photograph, film or television frame) functions as a synecdoche in that it suggests that what is being offered is a 'slice-of-life', and that the world outside the frame is carrying on in the same manner as the world depicted within it. Synecdoche invites or expects the viewer to 'fill in the gaps' and advertisements frequently employ this trope. www.swarthmore.edu /Humanities/passo1/synecdoche.html   (312 words)

Blue Ridge Press   (Site not responding. Last check: ) He adopts a looser definition, where synecdoche does not have to be just a figurative use of words; it can be a figurative use of objects or living things. These creatures, places, and humans are his synecdoches; by looking at them from an unusual angle, he uses them to “trace the primary laws of our nature” and to disabuse the reader of certain long-held notions. Synecdoche is one tool for the science journalist to be creative and artistic in his rhetorical strategies without sacrificing factuality, losing the reader, or abusing the trust of the scientists about whom he writes. www.nasw.org /users/gorss/thesis.htm   (13804 words)

World Wide Words: Synecdoche and metonymy They’re not the same thing, though metonymy is often interpreted so widely that synecdoche can be regarded as a special case of it. For example, when Shakespeare had Antony say in Julius Caesar: “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears” he was speaking figuratively of the thing the ears contained — that is, their function, their ability to listen, not some literal component. Contact the author if you want to reproduce this piece, but first see our advice page, which also has notes about linking. www.worldwidewords.org /qa/qa-syn1.htm   (523 words)

Poetry: literary devices Synecdoche is a form of metonymy, but it differs slightly in that it "specializes," usually in reference to a "number." When we say, "President Bush won only the states colored in blue on the map, but he is the president of the fifty," the word "fifty" is a synecdoche standing for the entire United States. The easiest way to single out a synecdoche from the general class of metonymy is to see if the word represents a total, of which it is just a part or an individual number. Synecdoche: understanding one thing with another; the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part. en.allexperts.com /q/Poetry-678/literary-devices.htm   (627 words)

Article: Is the "Faith" of the Bible "Faith Alone?" Synecdoche is a very common grammatical tool used by all of us. Synecdoche means the part represents the whole, or sometimes, the whole represents the part. This is a different kind of synecdoche, but Paul makes use of it in 1 Corinthians were he says "Moses" is read every week in the synagogue. preacherstudy.com /faithalon.html   (1320 words)

Word of the Day: synecdoche The poetic use of "fifty sails" for "fifty ships" is an example of synecdoche. "Synecdoche," from Greek "syn-" ("together") and "ekdoche" ("interpretation"), is a good word to know if you are a budding author. Most frequently, synecdoche involves substituting a part for the whole, as in our example sentence. www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/24/messages/401.html   (202 words)

delara, interrupted: synecdoche - or, replacement therapy Synecdoche is a specific kind of metonymy in which a part is used to signify the whole or vice versa. So, an example of synecdoche is “lend me your ears” where ears signify the greater concept of hearing, or “all hands on deck” where hands (being parts of the body) represent the crew members on a ship. And although literary synecdoche is viable and even clever at times, human synecdoche misses the mark and denies our elegant complexity, keeping us apart from the whole of what we know to be true in our heart. lay-c.com /delara/archives/002693.html   (1526 words)

basic.theology.forums > Synecdoche A figure of speech in which a part is used in place of the whole ("hired hand" for an employee) or the whole is used in place of a part (the law for a police officer). An important synecdoche in scripture is "the blood of Christ." The actual physical blood of Jesus is gone and cannot be said to have any efficacious value. Instead the blood is a synecdoche standing for Christ's sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection. www.basictheology.com /definitions/Synecdoche   (382 words)

synecdoche, definition 295 By a Synecdoche of the whole for the part, he might be s aid to forsake the Visible Church. 44 Of the Grammarians it is called a Synecdoche, or Comprehension, when a common word or name is restrained to a part which is expressed by the Accusative Case..: as, Æthiops albus dentes, an Ethiopian white in the teeth; here, white agreeing to the teeth only, is attributed to the whole Ethiopian. viii, This ordinance was frequen tly by synecdoche spoken of as the Breaking of Bread. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/dravling/synec.html   (382 words)

synecdoche and metonomy and hypocorisma and epithet and prosonomasia and antonomasia There are usually said to be five (sometimes six) kinds of synecdoche: the whole substituting for the part or the part for the whole; the species for the genus or the genus for the species; the material for the thing out of which it is made; or the cause for the effect. Whole for the part synecdoche is represented in "The United States won three gold medals," while, in fact, the boxing team might have been the real winners of the medals. Genus for species synecdoche is represented by "what kind of creature are you?" Even though we might be disappointed with a person, we know that s/he is yet a person. www.drbilllong.com /EvenMoreWords/SynMet.html   (700 words)

Ophelia's rhetoric or partial to synecdoche - Renaissance plays and synecdoche Criticism - Find Articles The most fundamental and enabling synecdoche for Shakespearean tragedy may be the assumption that a life may be represented by a single sequence of events, an essential episode that may represent the whole. Obstructed synecdoches complicate the representation of Hamlet's life by means of the play no less than Hamlet's potential representativeness as a Renaissance prince. Since the play as a whole might be characterized as a study in the obstructed synecdoche, our recurring sense of the peculiar elusiveness of this play whose many parts are notoriously difficult to assimilate to a whole and integrated interpretation seems consistent with, and even predicted by, the rhetoric of the play. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2220/is_n1_v37/ai_16946519   (577 words)

The Mavens' Word of the Day Synecdoche is, most broadly, the figurative device of using any subcategory for a larger category, or vice versa. One could come up with uses that could be labelled "synecdoche," using "Auschwitz" to refer to the horrors of Nazidom, or "Schindler" to refer to a person who does noble deeds, but you can't refer to a movie as a synecdoche for the events it partly portrays. I'd say she's probably right in the second case, too; that is, synecdoche, though a great and useful word, is probably too obscure to expect it to succeed. www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19990709   (336 words)

Metonymy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Synecdoche, where a specific part of something is taken to refer to the whole, is usually understood as a specific kind of metonymy. When the distinction is made, it is the following: when A is used to refer to B, it is a synecdoche if A is a part of B and a metonym if A is commonly associated with B but not a part of it. Those who argue that synecdoche is a class of metonymy might point out that "hands" (A) are a metonym for workers (B) since hands are closely associated with the work the men do as well as a part of the men. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metonymy   (1582 words)

BeingCharlieKaufman.com » Synecdoche   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Still, Synecdoche seems to be in the same neighbourhood as Adaptation and “Hope Leaves the Theater.” It’ll be interesting to see just how close it is to those two, and/or how much of a departure. …according to dictionary.com, a ’synecdoche’ is a conceptual metaphor wherein “a part is used for the whole” (as ‘hand’ for ’sailor’). TMZ has learned that Kimmel’s company is negotiating to finance “Synecdoche” outright, and that Sony has a right of first refusal to distribute the finished picture. www.beingcharliekaufman.com /wordpress/category/synecdoche   (2891 words)

Comments on 14535 | Ask MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: ) It isn't a synecdoche-- a synecdoche is when you use part of something to refer to an entire thing. Referring to the monarch of a state as the 'crown', as in Crown Prosecutor or Crown vs. Davis, is a common example of a synecdoche. However, you're in luck, and synecdoche has at least since Cicero, I believe, been taken to refer to cases of the part-whole substution in which a species (lower-order category) stands in for a genus (the higher-order category to which it belongs), as well as cases involving physical part-whole relationships. ask.metafilter.com /mefi/14535   (2221 words)

BIBLE STUDY MANUALS: CREATIONISM VS EVOLUTION A good synecdoche is based on an important part of the whole, the part most directly associated with the subject under discussion. Synecdoche is a type of metonymy where the part stands for the whole. A good synecdoche must be based on an important part of the whole and not a minor part. www.biblestudymanuals.net /synecdoche.htm   (1346 words)

ABC NewsRadio: wordwatch, Synecdoche Well, it can’t be changed, I’m afraid, because this is a very old figure speech called synecdoche. In synecdoche the part it substituted as a symbol for the whole. Synecdoche comes from a Latin source and is recorded as an English word (and an English figure of speech) from as early as 1388. www.abc.net.au /newsradio/txt/s1512918.htm   (167 words)

Pimp My Hair - It Figures - Figures of Speech Figure of Speech: synecdoche (sin ECK dokee), the scale-changing figure. That's what makes "bluehairs" a synecdoche ("taking one thing with another") -- a word that swaps a part for the whole or vice versa. The word on the street is a synecdoche. www.inpraiseofargument.squarespace.com /it-figures/2005/11/21/pimp-my-hair.html   (292 words)

Definition of synecdoche - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Learn more about "synecdoche" and related topics at Britannica.com Find more about "synecdoche" instantly with Live Search See a map of "synecdoche" in the Visual Thesaurus www.m-w.com /dictionary/synecdoche   (60 words)

Synecdoche, NY | MetaFilter Synecdoche, NY September 8, 2006 8:36 AM Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part. It's also the title of the directorial debut of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, set to begin filming in Summer 2007. Looking at the imbd and elsewhere, it seems that the title of the movie isn't Synecdoche; it's Synecdoche, New York (as with the title of this post). www.metafilter.com /54618/Synecdoche-NY   (1293 words)

Synecdoche   (Site not responding. Last check: ) Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part of an object is used to represent the whole object. For example, if you refer to your uncle as "Baldie" because of his bald head, you are using the figure synecdoche. The saying "lend me a hand" really means you want the whole person to help you in some project. www.stedwards.edu /hum/klawitter/poetics/synecdoche.html   (169 words)

christopher robbins blog » Blog Archive » starling’s synecdoche And then I decide I should make my fish thing have some reference to development or something, but decide my plywood tree and dirt for nauru idea are just fine as they are. So, The Oval Office is metonymy, while Hands on deck is a synecdoche. I guess, in a nutshell, synecdoche is tighter. www.grographics.com /wordpress/2006/10/23/starlings-synecdoche   (1196 words)

synecdoche A sword, the species, is represented by referring to its genus, "steel" Ad Herennium 4.33.44-45 ("intellectio"); Quintilian 8.6.19-22; Trebizond 61r ("intellectio"); Susenbrotus (1540) 7-8 ("synecdoche," "intellectio"; Sherry (1550) 42 ("synecdoche," "intellectio," "intelleccion"); Peacham (1577) C3r; Fraunce (1588) 1.8-11; Putt. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. humanities.byu.edu /rhetoric/Figures/S/synecdoche.htm   (154 words)

Kaufman's 'Synecdoche' Draws Cast - Hoffman and Williams will help teach America what a synecdoche is - Zap2it Kaufman's 'Synecdoche' Draws Cast - Hoffman and Williams will help teach America what a synecdoche is - Zap2it Hoffman and Williams will help teach America what a synecdoche is The project focuses on a playwright and several of the women in his life. www.zap2it.com /movies/news/zap-hoffmanwilliamssynecdochecasting,0,3355652.story?coll=zap-news-headlines   (319 words)

synecdoche - OneLook Dictionary Search Synecdoche : Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples [home, info] Synecdoche : A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices [home, info] Words similar to synecdoche: synecdochic, synecdochical, synecdochically, more... www.onelook.com /?w=synecdoche&last=synedoche&loc=spell1   (272 words)

synecdoche - Information from Reference.com Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006. adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, comparison, conceit, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, understatement Perform a new search, or try your search for "synecdoche" at: www.reference.com /browse/all/synecdoche   (209 words)

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