Another day of interesting sessions her in Phoenix, and another field trip to something of alternat interest here in the Arizona valley. Carrie (the field trip planner) and I went to Taliesin West, recently named a World Heritage Site (named recently, don't remember exactly when). There are twelve ceramic Chinese theater scenes embedded in concrete posts outside various building at the site. The guide said that Wright had a dislike for anything that was not useful, so these twelve scenes are particularly interesting. I have always liked Chinese art of many kinds, and I had no idea that Wright was a fan. BUT, it was a happy realization. The twelve scenes represent the 12 dramas of the Chinese Imperial Theater. An extra nice surprise, and part of another really good day.
Synecdoche -- Noun. a figure of speech by which a less encompassing term is put for a more encompassing term or vice versa. Shakespeare's Macbeth employs synecdoche when he orders a servant out of his presence with the command "Take thy face hence."
Did You Know? If you are a budding author (or blog master), synecdoche, from the Greek syn- ("together"), and ekdoche ("interpretation"), is a good word to know. Writers, and especially poets, use synecdoche in several different ways to create vivid imagery. Most frequently, synecdoche involves substituting a part for the whole(fifty sail for fifty ships). Less commonly, it involves putting the whole for the part (society for high society), the species for the genus (cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (a creature for a man), or the material for the thing made (boards for stage). Synecdoche is similar to metonymy, the use of the name of one thing in place of something associated with it (such as Shakespeare for the works of Shakespeare). I will try my best not to incorporate this.
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