Tag: word of the day

  • Discovering Synecdoche

    Iโ€™ve learned a new word: Synecdoche[1]. Synecdoche is a word thatโ€™s both fun to pronounce and understand. The Greek word it comes from means โ€œsimultaneous understandingโ€. In english it is a figure of speech expressed in several ways. Basically, a synecdoche occurs when the word for a part is used to refer to the whole…