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a figure of speech in which a part of something is used to signify the whole, or alternatively, the whole signifies a part, e.g. in the expression, Give me a hand, only the hand is referred to, although the help of the whole person is needed. In the expression, South Africa beat New Zealand, the whole of the South Africa is referred to, but the meaning is only the sports team.
the inappropriate combination of two metaphors, e.g. My love is a rose who is up to her neck in...
a class of letters or speech sounds (a, e, i, o, u) that are produced in the mouth in such a way...
a word that has come down to us from an earlier form of the language. Father is an inherited...
see concord.
a part of speech that takes the place of a noun. There are various types of pronouns. See...