synecdoche

synecdoche
—synecdochic /sin'ik dok"ik/, synecdochical, adj. —synecdochically, adv.
/si nek"deuh kee/, n. Rhet.
a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
[1350-1400; < ML < Gk synekdoché, equiv. to syn- SYN- + ekdoché act of receiving from another, equiv. to ek- EC- + -doche, n. deriv. of déchesthai to receive]

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      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. Closely related to metonymy—the replacement of a word by one closely related to the original—synecdoche is an important poetic device for creating vivid imagery. An example is Samuel Taylor Coleridge's line in “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “The western wave was all aflame,” in which “wave” substitutes for “sea.” See also metonymy.

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