Analogy vs Synecdoche - What's the difference?
analogy | synecdoche |
A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
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(figure of speech) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole.
* 2002 , (Christopher Hitchens), "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic , Sep 2002:
(rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech; synecdochy.
As nouns the difference between analogy and synecdoche
is that analogy is a relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation while synecdoche is (figure of speech) a figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole.analogy
English
(wikipedia analogy)Noun
(analogies)- Yet the systole and diastole of the heart are not without their analogy in the ebb and flow of love.
- Is there any analogy , in certain constitutions, between keeping an umbrella up, and keeping the spirits up?
- The old analogy likening the human mind to an imperfect mirror, which modifies the images it reflects, occurred more than once to Odo.
How to Write Programs," Time , 3 Jan.:
- Perhaps the easiest way to think of it is in terms of a simple analogy : hardware is to software as a television set is to the shows that appear on it.
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- A kid living on the street is a bit like — and please pardon the analogy here — a weed.
Derived terms
* disanalogy * false analogySee also
* metaphor * simile * example * homology * parable * parallelism English words prefixed with ana-synecdoche
English
(wikipedia synecdoche)Alternative forms
* syndoche, synechdocheNoun
(en noun)- "Holocaust" can become a tired syndecdoche for war crimes in general.