LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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a short stanza poem
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a long narrative speech
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a theory
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a figure of speech stands for whole thing
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -What is the meaning of synecdoche? Synecdoche is a rhetorical device which makes use of a term that refers to a part of something to substitute for the whole thing.
Detailed explanation-4: -’Synecdoche’ is when the word for a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or less commonly, the word for a whole is used to refer to a part. ‘Metonymy’ is when a word associated with something is used to refer to the thing itself.
Detailed explanation-5: -Synecdoche (/sɪˈnɛkdəki/ sin-NEK-də-kee) is a type of metonymy: it is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole (pars pro toto), or vice versa (totum pro parte).