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What does synecdoche mean?

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Noun
  1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole.
  2. (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech; synecdochy.
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Through a truly imperial application of synecdoche, this georgic trajectory of empire occludes the dark sides of commerce and conquest.
Night and Fog is formally constructed as a visual synecdoche, evoking a major chapter of history from a few traces remaining.
He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus.
It should be made clear that India in this regard is a synecdoche.
Metonymy is closely related to synecdoche, the naming of a part for the whole or a whole for the part, and is a common poetic device.
Qm is one of the positions in a Namz and is here used by synecdoche for it.

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