Using five(5) examples each ,differentiate between SYNECDOCHE and METONYMY.
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Synecdoche is a figure of speech where a part of something is used to portray the entire entity or vice versa.
Consider these examples:
Check out my new wheels!
England lost by three wickets in the last match.
As you can see in these examples, in the first sentence, we don't really mean checking out the wheels. By wheels, we imply that the car is to be checked out (part representing the entity). In the second example, we don't really mean that England lost, we mean that the English cricket team lost (entity representing part).
Metonymy is a figure of speech where an object is referred to as something closely associated with it.
Consider the following examples:
The suits took more from him during the hearing than his wife would after the divorce.
Rumours about a hired gun having been ordered for assassination were rampant.
As you saw in these examples, we don't really mean suits and gun there. What we actually mean is lawyers and assassin. Here terms associated to the intended terms were used.
Metonymy and Synecdoche both involve words being replaced by related words. But the basic and most important difference between the two is that there is no part-whole relationship between the intended and used words in case of Metonymy.