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Synecdoche
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Meaning
Noun
●
In Figures of speech:
A
figure of speech
that
uses
the
name
of a part of
something to
represent
the whole, or the whole to
represent
a part.
●
In Rhetoric:
The use of this
figure
of speech.
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Origin
synecdoche
English
synecdoche
Latin
συνεκδοχή
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
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