Effect
What is the effect of the use of the metonymy or synecdoche on the audience?
"Thirty hands scribbled furiously."
What is metonymy creates emphasis and imagery?
Identify if the following statement is a synecdoche or metonymy and explain your thought process using purpose, effect, part of a whole, etc...
"I give you my heart"
What is metonymy? OR What is synecdoche?
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All hands on deck (hands = people)
What is Synecdoche?
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"Maycomb gave them no money. But it gave them everything it had: strong backs and willing hands" - Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
What is back and hands are parts of people/laborers (part for a whole)?
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May the force be with you
What is Star Wars and metonymy?
What is the effect of the use of the metonymy or synecdoche on the audience?
"I watched Andy at the foot of the tree pressing the saw forward into the trunk. And faster than I thought it would come, with the saw's last toothy whine, the branch that bore that perfect apple fell to earth."
What is synecdoche elevates language?
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"Put your John Hancock on the dotted line to close the deal"
What is metonymy?
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The stage awaits your presence. (stage represents theater industry)
What is Metonymy?
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"The hungry mouths in the streets clamored for food. The city was restless and afraid." - Charles Dickins' A Tale of Two Cities
What is mouths are a part of people (part for a whole)?
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The Capitol controls everything.
What is Hunger Games and synecdoche?
What is the effect of the use of the metonymy or synecdoche on the audience?
“They sent us forty-eight flutes. We've only got three guitars. And I can't go tell all those flutes they've got to go packing! They'll poke my eyes out.”
What is metonymy creates emphasis?
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" There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. . . . Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless." - George Orwell's 1984
What is metonymy?
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The gavel silenced the room (gavel is an extension of the judge)
What is synecdoche?
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"I saw him looking at my car. Nice wheels, huh?" - The Great Gatsby
What is wheels are a part of a car (part for whole)?
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The suits on Wall Street are only concerned with profits.
What is Suits and metonymy?
What is the effect of the use of the metonymy or synecdoche on the audience?
“A long line of feet marches on into the dark, of small and large, and old and young, clad glittering or rough with callous, light and dark, painted, bare.”
What is synecdoche creates vivid imagery?
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"The pen is mightier than the sword"
What is 2 metonymies?
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The Iron fist rules the land. (Iron fist holds a more symbolic meaning)
What is metonymy?
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"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." - Julius Caesar by Shakespeare
What is "lend me your ears" is a metonymy for the phrase "give me your attention"?
Identify the pop culture reference and whether the following statement is a synecdoche or metonymy. Explain your thought process using purpose, effect, part of a whole, etc...
"Take thy face hence" - some famous book
What is Macbeth by Shakespeare and metonymy?
What is the effect of the use of the metonymy or synecdoche on the audience?
"O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!"
What is metonymy creates emphasis or conciseness?
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"Having a roof over one’s head"
What is 2 synecdoche's? OR What is metonymy?
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The alter and the throne clashed throughout history (symbolic interpretations)
What is 2 metonymies?
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. Heaven will correct it." - Hamlet
What is Denmark is a metonymy for the government or leadership within a country?
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The hands snapped, and half the universe was gone.
What is Avengers Infinity War and Synecdoche?