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Examples Help!
What is the
definition of Synecdoche?
How do you define Synecdoche? What is a Synecdoche? The word
derives from the Greek, sun with, and ekdexesthai meaning to
receive. Plural: Synecdoches. The
definition of Synecdoche is as follows:
English Grammar &
Terminology
Definition of Synecdoche - a poetic device |
Definition: A figure of
speech which expresses either more, or less, than it
literally denotes.
When a whole is used as the part or a part of a
thing is put for the whole
Example: "The world treated
him badly."
The whole world did not treat him badly only a part.
The whole is used as the part
Example:
"Twenty sails came into the harbor"
Meaning twenty ships came into the harbor
A part is used for the whole
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Definition of Synecdoche
- a poetic device |
Examples of Synecdoche in Poems
& Poetry
Poems with Synecdoche
examples can be found by the most famous poets including
Shakespeare, Swift and Frost:
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"Friends,
Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears" probably the most
famous example of synecdoche by William Shakespeare
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"Prepar'd to
scrub the entry and the stairs.
The youth with broomy stumps began to trace"
From 'A Description of the Morning' by Jonathan Swift
(1667-1745) where the the stump of the broom's straw
stands in for the whole of the broom.
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Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost where the
journey through woods and forests in the poem
represent life's journey.
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Tell that
its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them.
From "Ozymandias" by Shelley
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Give us this
day our daily bread. Matthew 6
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I should
have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
T. S. Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.
S. Eliot
Examples of
Synecdoche Poems
Examples Help! Use
of Synecdoche in Poems & Poetry
Examples of Synecdoche can
be found in many examples of the poem, poems or poetry. Famous
poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual
and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the
mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment
to literary works.
Examples Help -
Figures of Speech - Synecdoche
In Figurative Language we use words in such a way that they
differ somewhat from ordinary every-day speech and convey
meanings in a more vivid and impressive manner. Figures, like
Synecdoche make speech more effective, they beautify and emphasize it
in Rhetoric which is the art of speaking and writing
effectively. Figures of speech such as Synecdoche use word association
to convey emotion and mood often in a non-literal sense.
Examples Help! Using
Synecdoche
Figures of
speech such as Synecdoche adds adornment, beautifies, colors, elegant
variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exaggeration,
exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony, lushness and
luxuriance to the English language. This page providing facts
and info about Figures of Speech will help with the
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