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| Referring to military officers as "brass" is an example of what literary device? | |
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| No, it's synecdoche: referring to the whole by one of its parts, like saying "wheels" for "cars." | |
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| But brass isn't part of the officer. It's just associated with him. So it's metonymy, like saying "suits" for "corporate droids." | |
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| By gosh, I think you're right. My apologies. | |
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| Synecdoche would be if I called you "limp-dick." | |
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