Thursday 30 June 2011

Synecdoche

SYNECDOCHE

–noun
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.























Synecdoche as epitome?
Or epitome as synecdoche?
So much to choose from
So little to lie upon.

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