Mang Pedro lost his job due to Covid-19 pandemic. Because of this, he needs to find other means to earn money because he has five mouths to feed.
Answer: The figure of speech used is synecdoche. Synecdoche is used when you want to use a part of something instead of a whole. In this text, the mouth is used as a substitute instead of pertaining to the whole person.
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Synecdoche
- It is a part of speech that is uses a part of something to signify the whole.
- It is different from metonymy though they are sometimes mistaken to be the same. Metonymy totally replaces the word while synecdoche takes only a part of a whole.
Example:
"We're going to the party so you better bring your wheels."
- In this sentence, the word wheel is used instead of the word car. A wheel is a part of a car.
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