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Metonymy and Synecdoche
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APLIT.188 Metonymy and Synecdoche
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Read the excerpt: "A line of shoulders moved through the fog, and only afterward did the narrator learn their names." Which answer best explains "a line of shoulders"?
A
It is synecdoche: shoulders stand for people, first presenting them as burden-bearing shapes rather than individuals.
B
It is metonymy: fog stands for the narrator's childhood school.
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It is an allusion: shoulders refers to a specific proverb that controls the passage.
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It is antithesis: two opposite claims are balanced in the same grammatical form.
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