(12-19-2021, 02:46 AM)Hunter Wrote: (12-19-2021, 01:40 AM)Humans Being Wrote: When does madness take over for reason?
idk, those are questions left to higher authorities...
"Let's go, Brandon!"
Variations in Content include Traditional referents
Pars pro toto – the part stands for the whole – meta data – example: ‘doh’ references Homer Simpson – that simple reference somes up everything known about the character. Using that simple formula is a trigger action in our minds referencing the greater whole.
Or this use of synecdoche in politics…
President Trump’s tweets calling on four Democratic congresswomen of color to “go back” to the “corrupt” countries they came from sparked the controversy he undoubtedly wanted, as did his subsequent attack on one, Representative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota.
The chant “Send her back,” a variation on the 2016 Trump supporters’ chant about Hillary Clinton, “Lock her up,” resounded through a recent political rally.
These slights reveal Trump’s fondness for a rhetorical device called synecdoche.
https://communication-breakdown.com/2021...n-content/