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A common example of synecdoche: using the term boots to mean "soldiers", as in the phrase "boots on the ground".. Synecdoche (/ s ɪ ˈ n ɛ k d ə k i / sih-NEK-də-kee) is a type of metonymy; it is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something is used to refer to the whole (pars pro toto), or vice versa (totum pro parte).
Example: "That boy is like a machine." is a simile but "That boy is a machine!" is a metaphor. Synecdoche. Synecdoche occurs when a part of something is used to refer to the whole. Many examples of synecdoche are idioms, common to the language. Example: Workers can be referred to as 'pairs of hands', and a vehicle as one's 'wheels'. Metonymy
t. e. A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. [1] Keith and Lundburg describe a trope as "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase". [2] The word trope has also undergone a semantic change and now also describes commonly ...
Synecdoche. A synecdoche is a class of metonymy, often by means of either mentioning a part for the whole or conversely the whole for one of its parts. Examples from common English expressions include "suits" (for "businessmen"), "boots" (for "soldiers", a pars pro toto), and "America" (for "the United States of America", "totum pro parte").
t. e. A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from ordinary language use to produce a rhetorical effect. [1] Figures of speech are traditionally classified into schemes, which vary the ordinary sequence of words, and tropes, where words carry a meaning other than what they ordinarily signify.
Erotema – rhetorical question; a question is asked to which an answer is not expected. [1] Ethos – a rhetorical appeal to an audience based on the speaker/writer's credibility. Ethopoeia – the act of putting oneself into the character of another to convey that person's feelings and thoughts more vividly.
First attested in English in 1382, the word allegory comes from Latin allegoria, the latinisation of the Greek ἀλληγορία ( allegoría ), "veiled language, figurative", [4] which in turn comes from both ἄλλος ( allos ), "another, different" [5] and ἀγορεύω ( agoreuo ), "to harangue, to speak in the assembly", [6] which ...
v. t. e. Semiotics ( / ˌsiːmiˈɒtɪks, ˌsɛm -, - maɪ -/ SEE-mee-OT-iks, SEM-, -my-) is the systematic study of sign processes and the communication of meaning. In semiotics, a sign is defined as anything that communicates intentional and unintentional meaning or feelings to the sign's interpreter.