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Synecdoche is the use of a deliberate confusion of scale, in which a poet refers to one thing in terms of a part of it - or in terms of what it is a part of ...
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Synecdoche A figure of speech which mentions a part of something to suggest the whole. As in, "All hands on ... Understatement The presentation of a thing with underemphasis in order to achieve a greater effect. Frost uses this device extensively, often as a means of irony. His love poems are especially understated.
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Question please explain the difference between metonymy and synecdoche. ... I can help identify poems, and I can define literary terms. In the area of literary criticism or analyses of specific poems, my experience and interests are these: Shakespeare, 18th- and 19th-century English literature, and American literature.
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synecdoche n. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole (as hand for sailor ), the whole for a part (as the law for police officer ) ... Literary Dictionary: synecdoche...
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Shakespeare's sonnets, Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, and Robert Frost's meditative poems such as "Birches" include many lines of blank verse. ... Examples include hyperbole or exaggeration, litotes or understatement, simile and metaphor, which employ comparison, and synecdoche and metonymy, in which a part of a thing...
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Feb 12, 2008 ... Yes - from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot: "I should have been a pair of ragged claws. Scuttling across the floors of silent ...
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This year, too, I started to post poems that I like but have not perhaps quite finished. A small step towards greater engagement, ... The Master of Simile and Metaphor, Master of Synecdoche and Metonymy, Master of Greek words that might as well refer to culinary processes; (as she lards and lambastes).
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www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/sforres1/poetry/2002.html
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List of Poems (Alphabetical). Numbers following titles refer to the order in which the poems appear below. ... The poems were heavy and decorated with allusions, tradition, and so forth. Salt-water depth has preserved them. SCUBA gear may be rented at the wharf. Here is...
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Closely related to metonymy-the replacement of a word by one closely related to the original-synecdoche is an important poetic device for creating vivid imagery. ... Learn more about synecdoche with a free trial on Britannica.com...
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