The poetry terms that Scarlett and I have decided to research, and share are metonymy and synecdoche. The term metonymy comes from the Greek word metōnymia, which means “change of name”. It is a figure of speech in which the name of an object or concept is replaced with a word closely related to or suggested by the original. For example, “crown” is used to substitute a king or royalty. This is because the two are associated since a crown belongs to the king. Other examples include, “dish” used to replace a plate of food or “hand” used to substitute assistance. Synecdoche is very similar to metonymy; a synecdoche is a word or a phrase in which a part of something is used to refer to the whole of it. For example, “new wheels” refer to a new car because wheels are a part of the whole car. Other examples are “asking for her hand” which refers to asking to marry someone or “plastic” which refers to credit cards. Metonymy is important because it gives writers the opportunity to make words or phrases more powerful. The importance of synecdoche is that it allows authors to emphasize certain parts of a whole object or idea showing the importance of the part by using it to replace the whole.
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