| 单词 | synecdoche |
| 释义 | synecdoche (once / 69119 pages) n Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which you use a part of something to stand for the whole thing. If your parents buy you a car and you say that you just got a new set of wheels, you're using synecdoche — you're using the wheels, which are part of a car, to refer to the whole car. To correctly pronounce synecdoche, say "sih-NECK-duh-key." A synecdoche is a part that represents the whole. A photograph of a car that is completely covered in snow is a synecdoche for the burden everyone faces following a big winter storm. Synecdoche is a great literary device, especially for poets who strive to express a great deal in a single image. WORD FAMILYsynecdoche: synecdoches, synecdochical USAGE EXAMPLESFor 25 years, after all, Clinton was reviled as a synecdoche for unseemly female ambition. Slate(Dec 27, 2016) Terror is violence as synecdoche, atrocities carried out on a small part of the population made to stand for the whole. The New Yorker(Nov 16, 2016) A useful synecdoche for the changing relationship of the Republican Party to the establishment is the Bush family. The New Yorker(Oct 20, 2016) n a figure of speech in which part of something is used to refer to or represent the whole thing (or vice versa) Hyper figure, figure of speech, image, trope language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
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