synecdochic

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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).

[Middle English synodoches, from Medieval Latin synodoche, alteration of Latin synecdoch, from Greek sunekdokh, from sunekdekhesthai, to take on a share of : sun-, syn- + ekdekhesthai, to understand (ek-, out of; see eghs in Indo-European roots + dekhesthai, to take; see dek- in Indo-European roots).]

synec·dochic (s

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Adj.

synecdochic - using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it; "to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech"

synecdochical

figurative, nonliteral - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language"

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Beginnings Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices synecdoche Synecdochical	I use Forker and Saccio in this paragraph as synecdochic for source-study generally. Eating Richard II by Lopez, Jeremy / Shakespeare Studies That is, by using <human rights> as a way of tapping into the myth of America as the synecdochic representation of freedom in the world, and by associating some of his administration's actions with that myth while using it to dissociate others, Bush rhetorically reaffirms American exceptionalism while acting in ways that also subvert it. George Bush, , and American democracy by Stuckey, Mary E.; Ritter, Joshua R. / Presidential Studies Quarterly Possibly Fleissner is using "Africa" in a synecdochic sense: the continent stands for its inhabitants or their descendants who appear in several of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Robert F. Fleissner. Shakespeare and Africa: The Dark Lady of His ... by African American Review	syndactyl Syndactyle Syndactylic syndactylism Syndactylous syndactyly syndesis syndesmography syndesmology syndesmosis syndetic syndeton syndic Syndical syndicalism syndicalist syndicate syndicated Syndication syndicator syndiotactic syndrome Syndyasmian syne synecdoche synecdochic Synecdochical Synecdochically synecdochism synechia synecious synecology Synecphonesis synectics Synedral Synentognathi Synepy Synercus Synercus caffer syneresis synergetic synergid synergism synergist synergistic synergistically synergy synesis synesthesia synesthete synesthetic	syndrome recognition syndrome recognition syndrome recognition Syndrome Respiratoire Aigu Sévère Syndrôme Respiratoire Aigu Sévère Syndrome Without A Name syndrome X syndrome X syndrome X Syndrome X (cardiac) Syndrome X (metabolic) Syndrome X Score Syndromes Syndromes Syndromes syndromic syndromic syndromic syndromic hearing loss Syndromic Mental Retardation Syndromic Paucity of Interlobular Bile Ducts syndromology Syndyasmian syndynamics syndyne syne synecdoche synecdoche synecdoches synecdoches synecdochic synecdochical synecdochical Synecdochically Synecdochically synecdochism Synechdoche Synechdoche synechia synechia synechia synechia synechia vulvae synechia vulvae synechiae synechiae synechiotomy Synechocystis synechotomy synecious Syneclise synecologic synecologic synecological synecological synecologist synecologist synecologists synecologists synecology synecology

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Beginnings
Rhetoric and Rhetorical Devices
synecdoche
Synecdochical

I use Forker and Saccio in this paragraph as synecdochic for source-study generally.

Eating Richard II by Lopez, Jeremy / Shakespeare Studies

That is, by using <human rights> as a way of tapping into the myth of America as the synecdochic representation of freedom in the world, and by associating some of his administration's actions with that myth while using it to dissociate others, Bush rhetorically reaffirms American exceptionalism while acting in ways that also subvert it.

George Bush, , and American democracy by Stuckey, Mary E.; Ritter, Joshua R. / Presidential Studies Quarterly

Possibly Fleissner is using "Africa" in a synecdochic sense: the continent stands for its inhabitants or their descendants who appear in several of Shakespeare's plays and sonnets.

Robert F. Fleissner. Shakespeare and Africa: The Dark Lady of His ... by African American Review

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