different between hypallage vs synecdoche

English

Etymology

From Latin hypallage, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ???????? (hupallag?), from ??? (hupó, “hypo-”) + ????????? (allássein, “to exchange”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??pæl?d?i/, /h???pæl?d?i/

Noun

hypallage (countable and uncountable, plural hypallages)

1. (rhetoric, grammar) A construction in which a modifier with meaning associated with one word appears grammatically applied to another, often used as a literary device.

Synonyms

• transferred epithet

Translations

See also

• hypallage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin hypallage, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ???????? (hupallag?)

Pronunciation

Noun

hypallage f or m (plural hypallages)

1. (rhetoric) chiasmus

Further reading

• “hypallage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• syndoche
• synechdoche

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin synecdoch?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sunekdokh?, “receiving together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??n?k.d?.ki/, /s??n?k.do?.ki/

Noun

synecdoche (countable and uncountable, plural synecdoches)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.

   Hyponyms: pars pro toto, totum pro parte

   Hypernym: metonymy

   • 2002, Christopher Hitchens, "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic, Sep 2002:

     "Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.
2. (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.

   Synonym: synecdochy

Usage notes

Technically, a synecdoche is a part of the referent while a metonym is connected or associated but not necessarily a part of it.

Derived terms

Related terms

• docetism
• meronymy

Translations

See also

• metaphor
• metonymy

Further reading

• synecdoche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sunekdokh?, “receiving together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sin?k?do?x?/

Noun

synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje n)

1. (literature) synecdoche

See also

• metonymia