| In a work of literature Stewart's lies would constitute synecdoche, the rhetorical device in which a part stands for the whole. |
| The living conditions in the military, of which the hospitals are a synecdoche, also evince this metonymic transformation. |
| Through a truly imperial application of synecdoche, this georgic trajectory of empire occludes the dark sides of commerce and conquest. |
| Basically it uses metonymies, and with the help of synecdoches it shows the whole in the part. |
| However, the parallel synecdoches of the dagger and the flute point to a failing of social rituals. |
| Rather, those particular judgments are synecdoches for far vaster claims about the character or form of reality as such. |
