This document defines and provides examples of sententia and synecdoche. Sententia refers to moral sayings from ancient or popular sources that convey general truths. Synecdoche is a metaphor where a part stands for the whole, such as referring to employees as "hands" or the components of an army as including horses and feet. The document concludes by providing links to speeches demonstrating the use of these rhetorical devices.

1. Sententia and
Synecdoche
By: Mandy Wittig and Capella Gonzalez

2. Definition:
 Sententia-Moral sayings taken
from ancient or popular sources
that apply a general truth to a
situation.

3. Examples:
 For as Pascal reminds us, “It is not good
to have all your wants satisfied.”
 As for the saying is, art is long and life is
short.
 But, of course, to understand is to forgive
all.

4. Famous Speech:
 http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/sententia.htm

5. Definition:
 Synecdoche- metaphor
describing a part or potion of a
whole for the thing itself. Or
where the part stands for the
whole.

6. Examples:
 Farm Jones has two hundred head of cattle and three
hired hands. (This means Jones owns the cattle and
the hands are attached to the bodies.)
 The army included 200 horses and 300 feet.

7. Famous Speech
 http://www.americanrhetoric.com/figures/synecdoche.ht
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8. THE END! 