# Synecdoche > “A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part, or a specific kind or instance to represent the general category, or the general category to represent a specific kind or instance, or the constituent material to represent the thing made from it.”[^1] Examples: - “fifty head of cattle” — part (head) for whole (animal) - “pass me a Kleenex” — subclass (brand-named product) for class (all similar products) - “\[Country] maintains closer high-level ties with \[capital city]” — country for its government; capital city for that other country [^1]: ‘synecdoche’, *Wiktionary*, last modified 23 July 2025, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/synecdoche.