提喻法

tíyùfǎ

noun

Meanings

1 synecdoche (rhetorical device of using a part for the whole or vice versa)

Characters

to lift / to raise

metaphor / to liken

Examples

用'帆'指代'船'就是一种提喻法。

Yòng 'fān' zhǐdài 'chuán' jiùshì yī zhǒng tíyùfǎ.

Using 'sail' to refer to 'ship' is an example of synecdoche.

提喻法是一种常见的修辞手法。

Tíyùfǎ shì yī zhǒng chángjiàn de xiūcí shǒufǎ.

Synecdoche is a common rhetorical device.

Tips

usage

Linguistics/literary-theory term, paralleling English 'synecdoche' (Greek for 'taking together'). Easy to confuse with 借代 (jièdài, metonymy/借代) and 借喻 (jièyù, implied metaphor) — synecdoche is the strict part-for-whole or whole-for-part substitution.

Stroke Order

提 tí

喻 yù

法 fǎ