10 example sentences using synecdoche.
Synecdoche used in a sentence
Synecdoche in a sentence as a noun
It's pretty common to use the main airport name as a synecdoche referring to the city.
In my post--and I assume others' posts as well--I used Linux as a synecdoche for Free Software.
When people say "the crown" when referencing a monarch and their administration, that's a textbook synecdoche.
I took it as a synecdoche, the cardboard box itself is obviously not very significant.
Here's the real meta/synecdoche subtext:>oh, Jesus, I once had dreams of being a Pulitzer-winning series about Congo.
" It is not productive to issue a correction every time you encounter synecdoche.
Admittedly a synecdoche for lots of other things, like scalability, code quality, test coverage, &c
Perhaps its use has become cliche, but using a well-worn textbook example of a synecdoche isn't exactly sloppy and to describe it as such is ignorant.
I would regard the latter as just a synecdoche, using the name of the most well-known realization of that general concept to stand for all of the realizations of that concept.
It can be a special repetition, arrangement or omission of words with literal meaning, or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it, as in idiom, metaphor, simile, hyperbole, personification, or synecdoche.
Synecdoche definitions
substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa