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What is the figure of speech used as whole of a part or part of a whole?
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∙ 14y ago
That's synecdoche.
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What is the figure of speech used in this sentence- The rancher hired three new hands to help with the branding of the cattle?
A synechdoche is used in this sentence. A synechdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa.
When a part is used to represent the whole?
It is a figure of speech known as a synechdoche. For example, you might say "wheels" to mean a car or "bread" to represent food of all sorts.
What part of speech is figure?
A part of speech -- there are eight -- defines the classification of a word.For example, run is a verb, house is a noun and so forth.A figure of speech is a phrase used for emphasis which is not real.For example, 'you eat like a horse' doesn't mean that the person eats standing on all fours with chin in trough munching on oats. That figure of speech means that the person consumes more than average amounts of food.So a figure of speech is not a part of speech in the sense implied by your question.Another answer:'Figure of speech' is a noun phrase.
What part of speech is braggadocio?
Noun--however, many words have several possible parts of speech; please submit the Whole Sentence when asking for part of speech--cannot be sure without seeing how it is used in the sentence, as that's what determines the part of speech.
What is a Hyperbole poem?
A figure of speech in which deliberate exaggeration is used. For example- your mum is the best, most amazing, fantastic cook in the whole world.
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The figure of speech is the phrase "off your hands".
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What figure of speech is used in the line ''spring is the daughter of heaven and earth.
What is figure of speech used The silence is deafening?
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When this and that are used to modify nouns they are treated a which part of speech?
when this and that are used to modify nouns they are treated as which part of speech
What part of speech is the word my-?
The part of speech that the word my is used as is an adjective.
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What figure of speech the story of dead star
What figure of speech used by the author in chieftest mourner?
metaphor
