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Not off the top of my head, but I think it qualifies as a synecdoche: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
by ashaney 9y ago
Not off the top of my head, but I think it qualifies as a synecdoche:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
- tylerhou 9y agoOther way around - synecdoche usually refers to a whole through a part (calling an entire ship by just saying stern, for example) but a part through a whole is usually called metonymy. Synecdoche is a subset of metonymy. Edit: the wikipedia article does mention that it can be a part through a whole. But this is at odds with my Classical background.