Synecdoche-Metonymy

Zach: Pd 3: Thomas S Wootton

Definition #1: Synecdoche

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.

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http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/synecdoche

Definition #2: Synecdoche Figure of comparison in which a word standing for part of something is used for the whole of that thing or vice versa; any part or portion or quality of a thing used to stand for the whole of the thing or vice versa

Source:

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/synecdoche.htm

Definition in your own "student friendly" words: When talking about an "insert noun", referring to a part of it as if it were the whole.

Definition #1: Metonymy

The rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it or in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated

Source: http://grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/metonymy.htm

Definition #2: Metonymy A figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated

Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metonymy

Definition in your own "student friendly" words:

When speaking about "insert noun", speaking about something that is closely associated with it as if it were the said "noun"

Link to example #1 (text, advertisement, video, speech, etc): (Both Synecdoche and Metonymy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tAgzlh566E

2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: This video gives very "student friendly" definitions, followed by three types of examples: literature, music, and movie. The Literature is from Shakespeare and Edward Lytton, music by Beyonce and Maroon 5, and the movies __Up__ and __Peter Pan__.

Link to example #2 (text, advertisement, video, speech, etc): (Metonymy) http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_p3KMi2mOFFM/RdFRUk8ZO7I/AAAAAAAAAAM/j03z6_WNUWU/s320/Absolutf.jpg

2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: In the Absolute Vodka ad for their new apple infused vodka they use taxis to form a vodka bottle. The taxis are used as an affiliation with New York City also known as the big apple, thus the ad makes sense for using something know as a part of New York (the big apple) to parallel the apple infused vodka.

Link to example #2 (text, advertisement, video, speech, etc): (Synecdoche) http://www.vocabcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/synecdoche-242x300.jpg

2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: An illustration of "lend me your ears" it shows a silly cartoon of stick figure with its ears torn off as if to lend them to someone, when really it just means give me you attention.

Harrison Blackman Period 4 Thomas S. Wootton

Definition #1: Synecdoche 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,

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Definition #2: Synecdoche

a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (as //fifty sail// for //fifty ships//), the whole for a part (as //society// for //high society//), the species for the genus (as //cutthroat// for //assassin//), the genus for the species (as //a creature// for //a man//), or the name of the material for the thing made (as //boards// for //stage//)

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Definition in your own "student friendly" words: When part of a phrase is replaced by something that is associated with it, but the association represents part of a larger whole or the whole instead of just the part.

Definition #1: Metonymy A figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of //Washington// for //the United States government// or of //the sword// for //military power.// Source: []

Definition #2: Metonymy **Metonymy is a figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. Some significant aspect or detail of an experience is used to represent the whole experience. A metonymy is a play on words based on association such as the poem 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost where the injured boy holds up his hand "as if to keep the life from spilling." The literal meaning of this line is to keep the blood from spilling but it also tells us that the life of the boy is in mortal danger.**

Source: http://www.types-of-poetry.org.uk/75-metonymy.htm

Definition in your own "student friendly" words: Metonymy is the replacement of a word with a closely associated one.

Link to example #1 Synecdoche (text, advertisement, video, speech, etc): "Use of [|Holland], a region of the [|Netherlands], to refer to the entire country." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche

2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: Synecdoche is when a part of something refers to a whole. When the word Holland is used it often represents the entire country of the Netherlands.

Link to example #1 Metonymy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdbxC6Tjedo http://absoluteshakespeare.com/trivia/quotes/quotes.html "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him". - (Act III, Scene II). 2-3 sentence explanation of why it is a good example: Brutus substitutes "attention" with "ears," closely associated terms. He also uses "bury," instead of "denounce," a much more powerful term considering it has the double meaning of ending Caesar's life and publicly denouncing him.

Link to example 2: Synecdoche http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajKb6Mj5juE

Explanation: In different parts of the nation people refer to soda differently. The Northeast and California calls it soda, the midwest pop, and the South call any type of soda Coke, an example of Synecdoche as Coke is part of the litany of soda varieties but can refer to any type of soda in the South, a part of the whole which is what Synechdoche is.

Link to example 2: Metonymy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZlDF9VCbrg&feature=related

Explanation: Rick Perry uses words like "ultimate justice" to refer to execution, which has a more positive connotation, generating a positive response with the heavily right-wing population in the audience.

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