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( Synecdoche)
Synecdoche (pronounced "si-nek-duh-kee", IPA /s?'n?kd??ki/; from Greek sinekdohi (s??e?d???), meaning "simultaneous understanding") is a figure of speech in which The word "synecdoche" is derived from the Greek s??e?d???, from the prepositions s??- + e?- and the verb -d???µa? (accept), meaning originally the acceptance of a part of the responsibility for something. Synecdoche is closely related to metonymy (the figure of speech in which a term denoting one thing is used to refer to a related thing); indeed, synecdoche is considered a subclass of metonymy. It is more distantly related to other figures of speech, such as metaphor. More rigorously, metonymy and synecdoche may be considered as sub-species of metaphor, intending metaphor as a type of conceptual substitution (as Quintilian does in Institutio oratoria Book VIII). In Lanham's Handlist of Rhetorical Terms p. 189 the three terms have somewhat restrictive definitions, arguably in tune with a certain interpretation of their etymologies from Greek
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