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单词 synecdoche
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Definition of synecdoche in English:

synecdoche

noun sɪˈnɛkdəkisəˈnɛkdəki
  • 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’).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is an inventive device intended to provide new perspectives- and metonymy, synecdoche, and irony all operate by the invention of perspective.
    • On the other hand, the synecdoche is plain in the case of the Chalice: ‘This is my blood’, i.e. the contents of the Chalice are my blood, and hence no longer wine.
    • Note that this leaves aside several more difficult questions: the relationships among referents vs. the structure of the ontology, the problems of metonymy and synecdoche, elliptical variants of terms, etc.
    • Other theorists add synecdoche and irony to complete a list of ‘four master tropes'.
    • Night and Fog is formally constructed as a visual synecdoche, evoking a major chapter of history from a few traces remaining.
    • He, however, says that this substitution, along with many others, characterizes synecdoche.
    • There is a typology of rhetorical figures of speech made up of four tropes, they in turn govern the way we operate language: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
    • Such synecdoches are central to reformist representation, which relies on one ‘wretched woman’ to stand in for all.
    • Metonymy limited language by restricting it to ‘metaphorical extension’; synecdoche overcomes this limitation by inducement.
    • I found examples of other tropes and schemes - epanalepsis, asyndeton, polysyndeton, hyperbole, metonymy, synecdoche, personification, and anadiplosis - but perhaps my point is sufficiently made.
    • But as any reader of the odes can attest, Neruda's incredible use of metaphor, simile and synecdoche, among other poetic techniques frequently confronts the reader unprepared, jolted by the sudden flash of creative spontaneity.
    • I use the expression ‘all mouth and no trousers’ to introduce my sixth-formers to the distinction between synecdoche and metonymy.

Derivatives

  • synecdochic

  • adjective sɪnɛkˈdɒkɪk
    • The body as possessed by the knowledge of writing becomes a writer's body, part of the writing, a synecdochic body.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The six films resurrect, continue, and conclude the story of the Enterprise through the use of a synecdochic narrative.
      • Given that representations always stand at a distance from the objects they represent what we find is the synecdochic presence of domestic workers in the reminiscences of the Bengali middle-class.
      • In Ireland, I would argue, there is a metaphorical and, more specifically, a synecdochic similarity between the fetus' relationship to the mother and Ireland's relationship to Europe.
      • In the English writing of India, the emperor quickly becomes the locus of the civilized/barbaric binary and via this synecdochic function Mogul culture becomes figured as simultaneously civilized and barbaric.
  • synecdochical

  • adjective sɪnɛkˈdɒkɪk(ə)l
    • By weaving the notions of ancient skepticism into William and Adso's first journey into the labyrinth, Eco places infinitude in the form of suspension of judgement, synecdochical for ancient skepticism, within the labyrinth.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The dominant aesthetic is, therefore, synecdochical, but, whereas in a synecdoche, the part usually stands for the whole, in hypertext, the synecdoche is dynamic: the sum of the parts, always greater than the whole, does not add up to fixed and unified object.
      • I want to present a way of looking at our country in this time, in which the rights of homosexuals are synecdochical.
      • Because these perceptions were connected with shifting British attitudes to Russia as a whole, the story moves beyond the biographical to take on a synecdochical meaning.
      • Just as Matthew, Isabelle and Theo in the apartment are a synecdochical image, a microcosm of the revolution outside, so the France of May 1968 is figured in its entirety by Bertolucci as a mere image of the world's true revolutions.
  • synecdochically

  • adverb sɪnɛkˈdɒkɪk(ə)li
    • He argues that the detective is like the ‘cognitive hero,’ an ‘agent of recognition, reduced synecdochically to the organ of visual perception, the eye,’ seeking to understand the universe.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Likewise, at very purposeful points, Barnes is depicted with eyes that are optically printed as angry red points - synecdochically cast as ‘the essence of evil: wrath, obsession, anger, fear, hatred, [and] permanence’.
      • Reality arrives synecdochically, in sharply limned phenomena and events that act as object lessons.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek sunekdokhē, from sun- 'together' + ekdekhesthai 'take up'.

 
 

Definition of synecdoche in US English:

synecdoche

nounsəˈnɛkdəkisəˈnekdəkē
  • A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But as any reader of the odes can attest, Neruda's incredible use of metaphor, simile and synecdoche, among other poetic techniques frequently confronts the reader unprepared, jolted by the sudden flash of creative spontaneity.
    • Metonymy limited language by restricting it to ‘metaphorical extension’; synecdoche overcomes this limitation by inducement.
    • It is an inventive device intended to provide new perspectives- and metonymy, synecdoche, and irony all operate by the invention of perspective.
    • Such synecdoches are central to reformist representation, which relies on one ‘wretched woman’ to stand in for all.
    • I use the expression ‘all mouth and no trousers’ to introduce my sixth-formers to the distinction between synecdoche and metonymy.
    • There is a typology of rhetorical figures of speech made up of four tropes, they in turn govern the way we operate language: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
    • Note that this leaves aside several more difficult questions: the relationships among referents vs. the structure of the ontology, the problems of metonymy and synecdoche, elliptical variants of terms, etc.
    • Other theorists add synecdoche and irony to complete a list of ‘four master tropes'.
    • He, however, says that this substitution, along with many others, characterizes synecdoche.
    • I found examples of other tropes and schemes - epanalepsis, asyndeton, polysyndeton, hyperbole, metonymy, synecdoche, personification, and anadiplosis - but perhaps my point is sufficiently made.
    • Night and Fog is formally constructed as a visual synecdoche, evoking a major chapter of history from a few traces remaining.
    • On the other hand, the synecdoche is plain in the case of the Chalice: ‘This is my blood’, i.e. the contents of the Chalice are my blood, and hence no longer wine.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek sunekdokhē, from sun- ‘together’ + ekdekhesthai ‘take up’.

 
 
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