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A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa. Like a camera zooming in and out, a synecdoche makes the unfamiliar familiar, and the common uncommon. It is the lessening sail in Li Bai’s poem, which guides the viewers’ eyes towards the boundless sky—it is to get hold of the wider picture and to construct the overall characteristics of things using fragmented traces. It provides a natural and coherent way to understand the surroundings. A synecdoche differs from a metonymy in that it makes use of the physical and …