For example, I give you today's Word of the Day:
synecdoche: a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole or whole for a part or general for the special or vice versa
Photographers had to resort to visual synecdoche, hoping that a small part of the scene -- a wailing child, an emaciated mother, a pile of corpses in a freshly dug trench -- would suggest the horrors of the whole.
-- Paul Gray, Looking At Cataclysms, Time, August 1, 1994
We're using the part-for-whole type of synecdoche, for instance, when we describe a smart person as a "brain."
-- We Live by the Brand, Hartford Courant, August 9, 1995
Never used this word.......I might try it sometime though.........
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