A rhetorical trope that refers to something with a semantically narrower term (particularizing synecdoche) or a broader term (generalizing synecdoche). Examples include Washington or America for USA, or we for I. Burke, K. 1945. A grammar of motives....

Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which: a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing, or a term denoting a thing (a "whole") is used to refer to part of it, or a term denoting a specific class of thing (a "species") is used...