English Literature / Unit 2 ENL 0104 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Metonymy and Synecdoche
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The idea
Metonymy names something by a thing associated with it, as "the crown" for a monarch or "sabre rattling" for threatening war. Synecdoche, a kind of metonymy, uses a part for the whole or the reverse, as in "lend me a hand."
In practice
Associated thing, or part for whole.
Where people slip
Every synecdoche is a metonymy, not the reverse.
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