Quotations from William Shakespeare are drawn from the Arden Shakespeare (Third Series) and The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt (New York: W.W. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears Friends, Romans, countrymen Exordium, lend me your ears Synecdoche I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. Dean Anderson (Leiden: Brill, 1998), and the Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik, edited by Gert Ueding et al. Advanced students and scholars are directed to Heinrich Lausberg’s Handbook of Literary Rhetoric, edited by David E. Entry 4: SynecdocheExample:Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your earsJulius Caesar William Shakespeare Act III, scene iiFunction:This is a famous. Rebhorn and Frank Whigham (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007).
Burton’s Silva Rhetoricae ( ) and George Puttenham’s 1589 The Art of English Poesy, edited by Wayne A. It’s pretty clear that Mark Anthony doesn’t need organs of people he is addressing to, he just asks for attention. Examples of Metonymy in Literature In his Julius Caesar William Shakespeare writes Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. Terms (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) Gideon O. It’s really easy to define metonymy in literature if you have seen examples of it’s usage. The glossary draws on three indispensible resources for the study of tropes, figures, and rhetorical terminology in general: Richard Lanham’s A Handlist of Rhetorical It is designed for readers approaching rhetoric for the first time, and its definitions should serve as points of departure for further exploration of the philological labyrinths of the lexicon rhetoricae. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. In light of Quintilian’s warning, this glossary of basic Greek and Latin rhetorical terms aims above all at clarity, economy, and simplicity. Metonymy & synecdoche substitute a proper name for one of its parts or attributes, or vice versa. “Writers,” observes Quintilian, “have given special names to all the figures, but variously and as it pleased them” ( Institutio oratoria 9.3.54).