synecdoche

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• Paradoxically, Joey's uneasy position within the Philippines makes him a synecdoche for the larger Filipino nation.

  Academic text (2016)

• Beyond the impossible intervention of a non-auratic mourning, the second fallacy originates in a synecdoche and a metonymy.

  Academic text (1996)

• Like a synecdoche of the social space, on the playing field everyone was in costume.

  Academic text (2014)

• The ethical synecdoche means the whole world of relations between human persons.

  Academic text (1992)

• Yeah, I think I think a museum is a good synecdoche there for for life in general, because what we're talking about is curation.

• Shakespeare, in contrast to Titus or Aaron, models the appropriate use of synecdoche in several ways.

  Academic text (2000)

• The painting had become a synecdoche for "Millet" in the intervening twelve years.

  Academic text (2003)

• Mme. Arnoux's hand, tangibly present yet covered and not fully accessible, becomes a synecdoche for her entire person.

  Academic text (1990)

• When someone refers to the United States, saying 'America,' they use a synecdoche that represents the whole country.

• In literature, calling a group of workers 'hands' is an example of synecdoche to represent the people themselves.

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