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How to pronounce “synecdoche”
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Pronunciation guide for synecdoche
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of synecdoche with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- I'm Thinking of Ending Things
made before I started writing this, "Synecdoche, New York,"
- Definition summary
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part, or a specific kind or instance to represent the general category, or the general category to represent a specific kind or instance, or the constituent material to represent the thing made from it.
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How to pronounce synecdoche
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
made before I started writing this, "Synecdoche, New York,"
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “synecdoche”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part, or a specific kind or instance to represent the general category, or the general category to represent a specific kind or instance, or the constituent material to represent the thing made from it.
- (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.
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Similar Sounds
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