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Hey, Verl:
Here's something I Googled up. News to me: synecdoche covers the whole lot.
A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer), the specific for the general (as cutthroat for assassin), the general for the specific (as thief for pickpocket), or the material for the thing made from it (as steel for sword).
And all this time I thought it was a town in upstate NY.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Rhetorical Term Verlangen 07/14/02 12:14 AM Re: Rhetorical Term wwh 07/14/02 01:00 AM Re: Rhetorical Term Verlangen 07/14/02 01:17 AM Re: Rhetorical Term wwh 07/14/02 01:26 AM Re: Rhetorical Term wwh 07/14/02 01:40 AM Re: Rhetorical Term slithy toves 07/14/02 02:18 AM Gk. "to take with something else" belligerentyouth 07/14/02 11:12 AM Re: Gk. "to take with something else" of troy 07/14/02 01:18 PM Re: Gk. "to take with something else" Verlangen 07/14/02 01:49 PM Re:synecdoche and metonymy wwh 07/14/02 02:45 PM Re:synecdoche and metonymy Verlangen 07/14/02 07:03 PM
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