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but it worked in slithy's example, "here comes the law" when you see a policeman, or "now starts the deluge" when you feel a few drops of water, (or have your first drink at a party where some one else is paying!) in these cases, the whole is represented by the part...just as "100 head of cattle" doesn't just mean you have heads mounted on the wall, it mean you have 100 cattle, head to tail.
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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