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synecdoche: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

● anchor · a single construct in rhetoric Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
synecdoche1 CONSTRUCTSynecdocheLANHAM · PART & WHOLE

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Rhetoric

Naming a whole by a part, or a part by the whole

In rhetoric synecdoche is a trope in which a part stands for the whole or the whole for a part, as in "all hands on deck" for sailors or "the law" for a police officer, and by extension species for genus or material for object. Lanham's A handlist of rhetorical terms and The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics classify it among the master tropes and note its close kinship to metonymy, from which it is distinguished by the specifically part-whole relation. The referent is a substitution figure governed by inclusion between part and whole, recognised by the gap between the term used and the thing meant.[1][2]

Unit
A single substitution of a part for its whole or a whole for its part
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by detecting a part-whole substitution between the expression used and its intended referent

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Nearby constructs

trope3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructsmetonymy2 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, two systems

References

  1. Lanham, R. A. (1991). A handlist of rhetorical terms (2nd ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 9780520076693
  2. Greene, R., Cushman, S., Cavanagh, C., Ramazani, J., & Rouzer, P. (Eds.). (2012). The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics (4th ed.). Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691154916

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