synecdoches

Some people become synecdoches, symbols or metonyms.

iPhone 4S: Stephen Fry's review 2011

In Flaubert's world, however, they seem more like apparent synecdoches, in that often the whole is never given, never quite achieved.

Realism in Fiction 2008

A column of children yellow striped and blue and red below black hair smooth trailing her, back she strolls from Colombia smuggling again according to customs synecdoches in case.

The Gift Downright 2010

Rhetorically, I suppose you would call all of those riding crops and cravats and shirt buttons in Balzac's world synecdoches: they are parts that stand for an intelligible whole.

Realism in Fiction 2008

Appear The effigies as the "home", "home moon" sun that are the synecdoches to the fatherland.

Nina Mindova author of poetry book"Secret feelings" 2008

Appear The effigies as the "home", "home moon" sun that are the synecdoches to the fatherland.

Secret feelings - book from Nina Mindova 2008

The music is a synaesthetic substitution for the light, or more precisely for the splendor of the light, a substitution enabled by the fact that both the flies 'music and the light's splendor are synecdoches of summer.

Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

Late medieval thought bequeathed to the Renaissance many emphases which, as synecdoches, easily created problems and even heresy.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID LARRIMORE HOLLAND 1968

If it be granted that a concept used in a scientific sense by a given writer is expressed with a definite term, it is natural that other words formed by that writer as used to signify the same concept, or incidentally made use of by him, become, _in respect to_ the vocabulary fixed upon by him as true, metaphors, synecdoches, synonyms, elliptic forms, and the like.

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

He spoke half as long as the Mayor, and said four times as much: so much space did he save by saying nothing whatever about the fair women of the Southland, and by absolutely avoiding all metaphors, tropes, synecdoches, or anacolutha.

V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905