Synecdoche | Synecdoche Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration

Synecdoche | Synecdoche Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration

Synecdoche, Synecdoche Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration

Synecdoche | Synecdoche Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration

Synecdoche is a figure of speech that usually consists in using one noun for another of kindred meaning. Example,

1. We need ‘more hands’ (more workmen) to complete the work.
2. Uneasy lies the ‘head’ (king) that wears the crown.
3. ‘Silver and gold’ (riches) I have none.
4. I have been here for consecutive ‘three winters’. (three years)
5. A fleet of hundred ‘sails’ (ships) left the harbour.
6. Give us our daily ‘bread’ (food).
7. All the ‘rank and fashion’ (people of rank and fashion) came to the concert.
8. Let not ‘ambition’ (ambitious people) mock their useful toil.
9. There is a mixture of the ‘tiger’ (ferocity) and the ‘ape’ (tendency to imitate others) in the character of a Frenchman. –Voltaire.
10. ‘The mother’ (motherly affection) rose in her breast.
11. Every king is not a ‘Solomon’ (wise man).
12. ‘A Daniel’ (very wise judge) comes to judgment. –Shakespeare.
13. He is not a ‘Demosthenes’ (orator).
14. The Knight was clad in complete ‘steel’ (armour made of steel).
15. Her hands and feet were bound in ‘irons’ (fetters made of iron).
16. Some mute inglorious ‘Milton’ (great poet like Milton) here may rest.
17. India needs some ‘Newtons’ (great scientists) today. 0 0 0.

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N. B. The article ‘Synecdoche | Synecdoche Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration‘ originally belongs to the book ‘The Rhetoric‘ by Menonim Menonimus.

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Books of Composition by M. Menonimus:

1. Advertisement Writing
2. Amplification Writing
3. Note Making
4. Paragraph Writing
5. Notice Writing
6. Passage Comprehension
7. The Art of Poster Writing
8. The Art of Letter Writing
9. Report Writing
10. Story Writing
11. Substance Writing
12. School Essays Part-I
13. School Essays Part-II
14. School English Grammar Part-I
15. School English Grammar Part-II..