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Tmesis splits a word in two and tucks another in between; synecdoche turns a sail into a ship, a foot into a foot soldier, a stomach into the fleshly appetites; paradox contradicts itself without lying; ellipsis tells without saying.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 4
In the figure we call synecdoche, a part of the whole becomes a name for the whole, or vice versa as in "sixty head of cattle" or "fifty sails."— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
Here we have a synecdoche, which is the result of a function shift, which in turn is a clipping of picture tube.— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
But asyndeton is and so are all my old friends -- hysteron proteron, synecdoche, malapropism, and paranomasia, which is listed under puns.)— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4
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