Editing Synecdoche (section)

==Definition==
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Synecdoche is a [[rhetorical]] [[Trope (literature)|trope]] and a kind of [[metonymy]]—a figure of speech using a term to denote one thing to refer to a related thing.<ref name="seu">[http://mcl.as.uky.edu/glossary-rhetorical-terms#42 Glossary of Rhetorical Terms], University of Kentucky</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Jakobson|first=Roman & Morris Halle|title=Fundamentals of Language|year=1956|publisher=Mouton|location=The Hague|isbn=978-1178718140|page=95}}</ref>

Synecdoche (and thus metonymy) is distinct from [[metaphor]],<ref name="uwg">[http://www.westga.edu/~scarter/Figurative_Language1.htm Figurative Language- language using figures of speech], University of West Georgia</ref> although in the past, it was considered a sub-species of metaphor, intending metaphor as a type of conceptual substitution (as [[Quintilian]] does in {{lang|la|Institutio oratoria}} Book VIII). In Lanham's ''Handlist of Rhetorical Terms'',<ref>{{cite book|last=Lanham|first=Richard A|year=1991|title=A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms: A Guide for Students of English Literature, Second Edition|publisher=California University Press|location=Berkeley/Los Angeles/London|isbn=978-0-520-07669-3|page=189}}</ref> the three terms possess somewhat restrictive definitions in tune with their etymologies from Greek:
* ''[[Metaphor]]'': changing a word from its literal meaning to one not properly applicable but analogous to it; assertion of identity (A is B)—rather than likeness as with [[simile]] (A is like B); 
* ''[[Metonymy]]'': substituting an attribute of or object associated with something for the thing itself (e.g., substituting "the crown" for "the monarch" is not a synecdoche, since "the crown" is not strictly part of "the monarch").