Identify the right Figure of Speech in the following sentence : “She has many mouths to feed”.
Synecdoche
Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used to stand for the whole (or the whole for a part), e.g. ‘all hands on deck’ for sailors.
In ‘She has many mouths to feed’, ‘mouths’ — a part of the body — stands for the whole people (the dependants or family members) she must provide food for. This part-for-whole substitution is synecdoche.
An epithet is a descriptive adjective or phrase attached to a name (‘Alexander the Great’); none is present. Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration, but ‘many mouths’ is not an overstatement. Euphemism replaces a harsh or unpleasant word with a mild one, which is not the purpose here.
The expression substitutes a body part for the persons themselves.
Synecdoche option is correct.
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