Synecdoche shrinks the infinite into the particular, or magnifies the specific until it stands for something far larger than itself—part-for-whole, whole-for-part, and more besides. This lesson defines that literary sleight-of-hand in full, then offers brief but deep dives into its application across five iconic works: William Blake's "The Tyger," Dylan Thomas's "The Hand that Signed the Paper," T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, William Shakespeare's King Lear and Othello, and Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est."

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