The document defines and provides an example of synecdoche. It discusses how synecdoche is a figure of speech where a term is used to represent a whole or vice versa. It then analyzes the poem "Bonsai" by Edith Tiempo as an example of using synecdoche, where love represents an abstract idea depicted in the poem. The poem explores scaling all love down to fit in one's hands through metaphor and other literary devices.

1. SYNECDOCHE

2. SYNECDOCHE
Synecdoche
 meaning "simultaneous
understanding", is a figure of
speech in which a term is used
in one of the following ways:

3. WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?

4. WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?

5. WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?

6. WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?

7. WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?

8. WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?

10. BY: EDITH TIEMPO
“BONSAI”

11. EDITH TIEMPO
 Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 –
August 21, 2011), poet, fiction
writer, teacher and literary critic
was a Filipino writer in the English
language.
 Tiempo was born in Bayombong,
Nueva Vizcaya.

12.  Her poems are intricate verbal
transfigurations of significant
experiences as revealed, in two of
her much anthologized
pieces, "Lament for the Littlest
Fellow" and "Bonsai."
 As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally
profound. Her language has been
marked as "descriptive but
unburdened by scrupulous detailing."
She is an influential tradition
in Philippine literature in English.

14. BONSAI
 The poem is an example of a work
that is objective-correlative
wherein the ideas depicted are
abstract. In this work of literature,
love is the abstract idea.

15. Bonsai
FIRST STANZA
All that I love Enjambment,
I fold over once
free verse,
And once again
And keep in a box repetition,
Or a slit in a hollow
post alliteration.
Or in my shoe.
. -Line 1 and 3 are made up of 4
syllables
-2 and 4 are made up of 5.
-the word “once” is repeated twice
(line 2 and 3) in the same stanza

16. 2nd stanza
All that I love?
OXYMORO
Why, yes, but for the moment ---
And for all time, both. N
Something that folds and keeps easy,
Son’s note or Dad’s one gaudy tie,
A roto picture of a young queen, SYMBOLIS
A blue Indian shawl, even M
A money bill.
- repeats the first line in the first
stanza but this time the speaker
uses a question mark and the
question word “why” in the
second line.

17. 3rd stanza
Free verse
It’s utter sublimation
A feat, this heart’s
control repetition in
Moment to moment line 3,
To scale all love down
To a cupped hand’s metaphor
size, line 4 and 5.

18. 4th stanza
APHAERESI
Till seashells are broken S
pieces METAPHOR
From God’s own bright
SYNDETON
teeth.
And life and love are real
PERSONIFICATION
Things you can run and
Breathless hand over
To the merest child.

19. ANALYSIS
 The poem tells us that the things
we hold dear may give us
happiness and security but the
happiness and security they offer
are but temporal yet life on earth is
so short.

20.  It takes some sacrifice and pain
for the bonsai to be trimmed and
to be cut off of its main root in
order for it to show its real beauty.
Indeed, it is not easy to give up
what we hold so dear for the sake
of others but as the poem
suggests it can make our life
sublime like the bonsai.

21. SOURCE:
 http://nicethoughtsnthrills.blogspot.
com/2009/08/whats-in-beatiful-
poem-bonsai.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_T
iempo
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecd
oche