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Talk about la même chose!
The Oxford Dictionary of English tells me that 'synechoche' is 'a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or visa vera; while 'metonymy' is the subtitution of the name of an adjunct for that of the thing meant.
Well, does this simply mean that 'metonymy' is a certain kind of 'synechoche' -- the part for the whole?
Surely these are murky waters?
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The most important thing in any discussion like this is the fact that most rhetorical terms aren't defined quite as precisely as one would want or expect. I've always been interested by them, and I remember in college going to a professor of mine, the chairman of the classics department, to ask about some subtle distinction between two terms, and he basically laughed and said that it was completely irrelevant. - Jesse Sheidlower, North American Editor, Oxford English Dictionary
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we all know of anastrophe; but what about hyperbaton?
(not to be confused with hysteron proteron (hysterologia) or parenthesis)
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