Synecdoche although I was very angry, I did not cause him any harm at all.

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Danna Jacobs

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6 October, 07:23

Synecdoche although I was very angry, I did not cause him any harm at all.

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Tyrell Lutz · Answer 1

Synecdoche is a figure of speech which writers often use in order to show how a part of something can be represented as a whole, and vice versa.

So, here, in the sentence Although I was very angry, I did not cause him any harm at all, in order to create a synecdoche, here is what you need to do:

Although I was very angry, I did not touch a hair on his head.

You can see that the phrase touch a hair on his head is used to denote not do any harm. Just one small part (a hair) is used to represent a whole (harming someone).