ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Synecdoche refers to a literary device in which a part of something is substituted for the whole (as hired hand for “worker"), or less commonly, a whole represents a part (as when society denotes “high society").

Detailed explanation-2: -synecdoche, figure of speech in which a part represents the whole, as in the expression “hired hands” for workmen or, less commonly, the whole represents a part, as in the use of the word “society” to mean high society.

Detailed explanation-3: -Synecdoche (pronounced “si-nek-duh-kee”) is a literary term derived from the Greek “synekdoche” (“simultaneous meaning”). The contemporary English definition of synecdoche is: a literary device where a word for a small component of something can stand in rhetorically for the larger whole, or vice versa.

Detailed explanation-4: -b) synecdoche-Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in England lost by six wickets (meaning ‘ the English cricket team’). This figure of speech is used in everyday life without much heed being paid to it.

Detailed explanation-5: -A figure of speech in which a part of something stands for the whole (for example, “I’ve got wheels” for “I have a car, ” or a description of a worker as a “hired hand”). It is related to metonymy.