Macbeth, Part 3: Rhetorical Devices

Question 9 of 14 • *CR01003A English 3

What is synecdoche?

Answer

a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole

the contrasting of ideas through the parallel arrangement of words

when a speaker says the opposite of what they mean

the use of a single word to modify different terms in different senses

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