I am quite confused about the difference between these two kinds of figures of speech, synecdoche and metonymy. Sometimes, I think synecdoche is just one type of metonymy. Could you please help me out ...

In Norman MacCaig's poem Visiting Hour, the speaker uses synecdoche to describe himself as he visits his wife in hospital: 'the hospital smell combs my nostrils as they go bobbing along.' MacCaig ...

Synecdoche is a technique in which a part of something is made to represent the whole thing or the whole thing is made to represent a part. In Norman MacCaig's poem Visiting Hour, the speaker uses ...