Post by t-bob on Jan 29, 2019 10:02:31 GMT -5
synecdoche
noun
1. Rhetoric. 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.
Quotes
... our current cultural circumstance, for which the internet stands as synecdoche, makes us belatedly ache with a longing for a lost coherence. -- Michael Joyce, "The Persistence of the Ordinary," Moral Tales and Meditations, 2001 In this way, the trumpet is a kind of synecdoche for Chance’s ramplike gift: in the course of a verse, a song, or, here, the ecstatic whole of an album, he always seems to be stretching toward something new, something else. -- Vinson Cunningham, "The Sound of Hope: Chance the Rapper," The New Yorker, May 24, 2016
Origin
Synecdoche, “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,” comes via Latin synecdochē, from Greek synekdochḗ “understanding one thing through another.” The funny thing is that the word first appears in the works of the great, commonsensical Roman rhetorician Quintilian (c35-c95 a.d.). The formation of synecdoche is simple enough: the Greek preposition and prefix syn, syn- is well known in English; the noun ekdochḗ “receiving from another in succession” later acquires the meaning “interpretation.” Synecdoche first appears in English in the 15th century
noun
1. Rhetoric. 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.
Quotes
... our current cultural circumstance, for which the internet stands as synecdoche, makes us belatedly ache with a longing for a lost coherence. -- Michael Joyce, "The Persistence of the Ordinary," Moral Tales and Meditations, 2001 In this way, the trumpet is a kind of synecdoche for Chance’s ramplike gift: in the course of a verse, a song, or, here, the ecstatic whole of an album, he always seems to be stretching toward something new, something else. -- Vinson Cunningham, "The Sound of Hope: Chance the Rapper," The New Yorker, May 24, 2016
Origin
Synecdoche, “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,” comes via Latin synecdochē, from Greek synekdochḗ “understanding one thing through another.” The funny thing is that the word first appears in the works of the great, commonsensical Roman rhetorician Quintilian (c35-c95 a.d.). The formation of synecdoche is simple enough: the Greek preposition and prefix syn, syn- is well known in English; the noun ekdochḗ “receiving from another in succession” later acquires the meaning “interpretation.” Synecdoche first appears in English in the 15th century
