| 单词 | synecdoche |
| 例句 | Their fame has not eclipsed other injustices in Russia but highlighted them, in the tradition of opposition movements strategically promoting charismatic individuals, from Nelson Mandela to Ai Wei Wei, as synecdoches for an entire cause. Pussy Riot: activists, not pin-ups 2012-12-20T18:35:44Z Proceeding by touches, symbols, and synecdoches, by suggestions and implications, Gray’s modesty conveys, above all, an absence—the incommensurable abyss between the experience and the image, the realm of the unfilmable, or, rather, the no-longer-filmable. “The Lost City of Z” Resuscitates Cinema’s Classic Adventure Tale 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Others offer a bio-slice or synecdoche, centered on one particular period, relationship, or field of activity to provide an exemplary angle on the life and work. The Art of Billie Holiday’s Life 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The home, a nation unto itself, falls easily into the pitfalls of synecdoche. My houseplant garden is a tiny national park Donald Trump can never destroy 2020-03-21T04:00:00Z A familiar synecdoche operates in terms like "the city" and "money". Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z There are powerful examples of synecdoche throughout this show: for instance, Celmins’s 1965 “World War II Puzzle Toy,” a handheld game with a war scene rendered on a circular surface under a transparent dome. Review | Why is this genius artist only now getting a show worthy of her art? 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z They function as shorthand, as synecdoche, as a way for us to find each other. Does My Child’s Name Erase My Identity? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z He’s superb at creating synecdoches of pain, such as a reference to a fractured wrist chained to a tree. Review | In Colson Whitehead’s ‘The Nickel Boys,’ an idealistic black teen learns a harsh reality 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z They trade in synecdoche, a more focused intimacy. My Stories Become Someone Else’s: Adapting a Book to Film 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z The central conflict faced by the characters in “The Connection” doesn’t have much to do with heroin, though — that too is a symbol or synecdoche. Male grooming: The movie 2012-05-18T23:15:00Z By zeroing in on the woman’s memories of her departed love, the author used an elegant kind of novelistic synecdoche to hint at the enormity of loss shared by all Holocaust survivors. Book World: ‘The Train to Warsaw’ by Gwen Edelman That means more or less everything in man-made modernity, every city and almost every building, and New York serves as the master synecdoche for the relentless, eruptive destruction of the world. The Empty Astonishments of “X-Men: Apocalypse” 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z In Mangold’s hands, parts become wholes and the exhibition a master class in synecdoche: the tree is the forest; the painter a human representative negotiating with the natural world. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Now synecdoche for undergoing indoctrination by hypnotic forces, usually emanating from a cultish leader, “drinking the Kool-Aid” was a ritual of faith for members of the Peoples Temple. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z If you have not thought much about iambs and trochees, or denotation and connotation, or synecdoche and metonymy in recent years, you are in for a day tripper’s version of literary spelunking. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z In Darlington’s Devon neighborhood, the synecdoche for global habitat destruction is the arrival of a sign in a soon-to-be-former farm field: “Site Acquired for Development.” Review | What can owls teach us? And what should we learn from them? 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z And I'm far from the only one who sees the destruction of Twitter under Musk as a synecdoche for what's awaiting the entire country if Republicans win in the midterms. Elon Musk's flaming Twitter fiasco is what the US will look like if MAGA wins the midterms 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z To many Americans, Alabama is a synecdoche for the worst of Southern reaction. Race, labor and the South 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Also: “Chinese is synecdoche for Asians the way Kleenex is for tissues.” 'Racism has come roaring back with Covid-19': Cathy Park Hong on being Asian American 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z It is a figure of speech, a synecdoche, where “dance” is part of a larger thing: life. Critic Curtis White: Capitalism needs workers who are "stupid-smart" 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z The word that defined Theresa May’s struggles—and that became a metaphor, a pretext, a synecdoche for everything that was impossible—was “backstop.” How Brexit Will End 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z The word synecdoche, by the way, is a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole. New Burke Museum will have a striking and symbolic work of art 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Millennial wellness and fitness culture is frequently synecdoche for self-improvement and career success. Why millennials will miss Boomers when they're gone 2019-05-12T04:00:00Z It is my synecdoche and also my equivalent of Achilles’ famed heel, which didn’t make it into the magic waters of the Styx. ‘A crunch. A rip. Pain spread like a stain’: my lifetime of back trouble | Maggie O'Farrell 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z There’s also his oak-topped Giro side table, whose conjoined but contrasting metal legs are inspired by a synecdoche. 6 Rising Design Studios From Central and South America to Know 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z I was enchanted with the words metonymy and synecdoche when I learned them in a high school English class. The Metonymy of Matrices 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z In Switzerland I suggested that the riddle of consciousness is a synecdoche for the riddle of humanity. Is Science Infinite? 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z On his site, Cuddy’s name, far from the only one he repeatedly invoked, became a go-to synecdoche for faulty science writ large. When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z King’s shudders and vibratos, half-shouts and glottal stops have become a synecdoche for the ongoing struggle for American freedom. The Case for Black English 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z It is synecdoche for the Soviet Union, and Putin-as-Soviet-revanchist, with a hammer in one hand and a sickle in the other, is one of his chief avatars in the western press. Killer, kleptocrat, genius, spy: the many myths of Vladimir Putin 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Then again, Chicago is a place containing a lot of things besides people, and the people celebrating the World Series are, well, people, so I guess it’s still synecdoche. The Metonymy of Matrices 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z In Moonlight, a whole childhood conspires to drive a man to become a numb synecdoche of all that has blighted his own upbringing. It’s painful watching the male crisis onscreen – more painful in real life | Deborah Orr 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z A useful synecdoche for the changing relationship of the Republican Party to the establishment is the Bush family. The Long Decline of the Republican Establishment 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z In the past, debates gaffes have materially affected elections, often becoming a synecdoche representing much more than the "there you go again" instance, usually verifying, but sometime contravening, prevailing campaign narratives. Moderate Moderators 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Viewed head on, the tipped L and the T and two other cement elements form a frame around a rectangular face of cinder-colored “fixed dirt”: Heizer’s neat synecdoche for paint. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “Bubbly” for “champagne” might be metonymy, but maybe it’s synecdoche because the bubbles are in the champagne. The Metonymy of Matrices 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z Bernie Sanders has tended to frame his position as a defense of an imperilled middle class, but he has also called out the “greedy billionaires” and “Wall Street”—a synecdoche for exploitation in general. Learning to Talk About Class 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z O’Malley rails against the evils of synecdoche, arguing that it is disrespectful when Republicans say “boots on the ground” when referring to ground troops. What You Missed While Not Watching the Democratic Debate 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z The headline turns out to be a bait-and-switch: It uses “Hillary Clinton” as a synecdoche for the prospect of “the first woman president.” The Outsider? 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Chair Yellen had achieved synecdoche, synopsis, and metaphor all in one sentence. Why The Fed Can't Tell The Truth 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Grammarians would describe the use of "boot", in the phrase "boots on the ground", as a case of synecdoche - a figure of speech where the part represents the whole. Why 'boots on the ground'? 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z One branch of this pop-culture lexical invasion is the brand name that comes to encapsulate a whole class of object: Xerox for all copiers being probably the most prevalent example of such corporatist synecdoche. Feeling a Bit Iffy About ‘Abilify’ Really, Andrew, we can't believe any of our readers was so predictable as to bring up the old synecdoche argument again. The Loop: International understanding 2013-07-26T11:08:00Z What perfect synecdoche for the contemporary United States, which boasts the highest incarceration rate in the world: A for-profit prison-sponsored university football stadium. Football stadium named after private prison corporation 2013-02-20T20:30:00Z The Valentine’s Day Dilemma is a synecdoche of sorts for the much larger problem of subjectivity, or solipsism. Can the Singularity Solve the Valentine's Day Dilemma? 2013-02-11T14:15:07.257Z There is the synecdoche “Chicago,” an inside-Washington way of saying “the Obama campaign” that casts the reporter more as campaign insider than skeptical outsider. Currents: Theater Critic or Political Reporter? 2012-08-24T15:14:08Z The roughly 50 al-Qaida fighters remaining in Afghanistan have become a synecdoche for the whole of the Muslim Middle East and South Asia. New York appeals court upholds ex-sailor's terror conviction 2010-12-21T00:30:00Z Perhaps the most visually mocked national figure these days, though, is Nancy Pelosi, who is used incessantly as a synecdoche for all that is evil and twisted about the Democrats. And what's more, you're ugly! 2010-09-27T16:22:00Z Or the artist, proceeding by synecdoche, takes a part for the whole, and instead of portraying the entire animal, contents himself with one prominent feature or one aspect of it. The Religious Sentiment Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and Philosophy of Religion But what had they to do either with a metaphor or a synecdoche when the text may bear the proper sense? The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) When this relation is that of a part to the whole or of the whole to a part, the figure is synecdoche. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide Those founded on contiguity are metonymy, synecdoche, exclamation, hyperbole, apostrophe, and vision. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Marlorate saith by a synecdoche, a part for the whole, it signifies the Church; though this seems doubtful to me, and I rather believe it means the world.” The Parables of Our Lord ‘Hunger’ is put by synecdoche for hungry animals. Milton's Comus Our intellectual sin is synecdoche, the putting a part truth for a whole truth. A Hero and Some Other Folks The synecdoche, in which a part is put for the whole, as the sword for war, is in its nature essentially a metonymy. Companion to the Bible HEFT.—Handle, hilt; used by synecdoche for ‘sword.’ Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem To most persons the term "figure of speech" suggests such figures as metonymy and synecdoche, which they once learned to define, but never thought of using voluntarily in their own writing. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers But probably the ministers thought it to be another case of synecdoche. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 But when we said "speech," we intended to employ a synecdoche, and that "expression" generically, should be understood, for expression is not only so-called verbal expression, as we have already noted. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Besides, the custom of speech is well known that by the same word we sometimes comprehend by synecdoche the cause and effects. Apology of the Augsburg Confession Alwyn could now no longer bind himself down to machine-made synecdoche, antithesis, and climax, being full of spontaneous specimens of all these rhetorical forms, which he dared not utter. A Group of Noble Dames I know a great deal of it by heart, for I loved it long before I knew a metaphor from a synecdoche. The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy No man uses figures of speech with more propriety because he knows that one figure is called a metonymy and another a synecdoche. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 By synecdoche, the lyre is put for the angel v. 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