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synecdoche
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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2009
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syn·ec·do·che
/ siˈnekdəkē/
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n.
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “Cleveland's baseball team”).
DERIVATIVES:
syn·ec·doch·ic
/ ˌsinekˈdäkik/ adj.
syn·ec·doch·i·cal
/ ˌsinekˈdäkikəl/ adj.
syn·ec·doch·i·cal·ly
/ -ˈdäkik(ə)lē/ adv.
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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Ambitious 'Synecdoche' questions life's very nature.(Spotlight)(Movie review)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO); 11/14/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Robert Denerstein, Special To The News Synecdoche, New York can be frustrating, beautiful...t call it a complete success, but Synecdoche stayed with me in ways that most movies...Overly ambitious? Probably. But Synecdoche grapples with issues that obviously...
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 "The Capital Times (Madison, WI)")
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'SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK' AN EPIC CREATION THAT SLOWLY LOOSENS AND UNHINGES THE WHEELS OF LIFE.(77 SQUARE)
Newspaper article from: The Capital Times (Madison, WI); 11/27/2008; 700+ words
; Byline: Katjusa Cisar "Synecdoche" is one of those words you're...Mind" -- gave this example of a synecdoche: calling your car your "wheels...example. His directorial debut, "Synecdoche, New York" (a twist on Schenectady...
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In 'Synecdoche, NY,' A State Of Mind Expanded
Transcript from: NPR Weekend All Things Considered; 10/26/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Things Considered 10-26-2008 In 'Synecdoche, NY,' A State Of Mind Expanded Host...s our vocabulary word of the day, synecdoche. It's a figure of speech that uses...meaning hungry people, you're using synecdoche. Or when you say nice threads to compliment...
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Ophelia's rhetoric or partial to synecdoche. (Renaissance plays and synecdoche)
Magazine article from: Criticism; 1/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...dependency on various kinds of synecdoche. Hamlet seems to me pivotal...a study in the obstructed synecdoche, the part/whole substitution...like Polonius. Obstructed synecdoches complicate the representation...a study in the obstructed synecdoche, our recurring sense of...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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'Synecdoche' has some local ties.(Arts & Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 5/24/2008; 700+ words
; ...Friday at the Cannes Film Festival with "Synecdoche, New York," the tale of a theater...out the 'kuh,' " Kaufman said. A "synecdoche" is a figure of speech in which a part...Adaptation" and was a producer on "Synecdoche," said Kaufman grows bolder and delves...
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All the stage is a world.(FILM)(Synecdoche, New York)(Movie review)
Magazine article from: The American Conservative; 11/3/2008; ; 700+ words
; [Synecdoche, New York] STARTING WITH 1999's...in the first film he's directed. "Synecdoche, New York" is an ultra-ambitious...stabilizes, and the women around him ("Synecdoche" features seven excellent actresses...
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'Synecdoche': A Part of Life That Makes Us Whole
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/7/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...the emotional void at the center of "Synecdoche, New York," an astonishingly good...makes his directorial debut with "Synecdoche," and it's a stunning one. Ideas...his earlier scripts are liberated in "Synecdoche." It is one of the best films of the...
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Synecdoche, New York
Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh City Paper; 11/26/2008; ; 700+ words
; Synecdoche, New York Block That Metaphor BEFORE...you won't mind my saying this: A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which the part...Malkovich, is the writer/director behind Synecdoche, New York, the story of theater director...
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`Synecdoche' not visitor friendly.(Arts and Lifestyle)
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 11/7/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...s like to be you-know-who. In "Synecdoche, New York," we are invited, I believe...cleverly titled for its own good, "Synecdoche, New York," the directing debut of...Brion ("I Heart Huckabees"), "Synecdoche, New York" delivers the classic Kaufman...
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 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Could Synecdoche, New York Be the Worst Movie Ever? Yes!
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 10/21/2008; 700+ words
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SYNECDOCHE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
SYNECDOCHE [Stress: ‘sin-EK-doh-ky’]. In RHETORIC , a figure of speech concerned with parts and wholes...
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synecdoche
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
synecdoche , figure of speech, a species of metaphor , in which a part of a person or thing is used to designate the whole—thus, "The house was built by 40 hands" for "The house was built by 20 people." See metonymy .
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METONYMY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...related to and sometimes hard to distinguish from METAPHOR . It has sometimes been seen as a kind of SYNECDOCHE and sometimes as containing synecdoche. Both metaphor and metonymy express association, metaphor through comparison, metonymy through...
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...abstract, ” meaning partial, unsubstantiated, fragmentary — the part standing for the whole as in a synecdoche — is always used pejoratively by Hegel. The battle lines are arrayed from book to book: Particularity, subjectivism...
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Metonymy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...the deep to mean ‘the deep sea’, the bench for the judiciary. A closely related figure is that of synecdoche, in which a part is substituted for the whole ( per head , to mean ‘per person’), or a whole is substituted...
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