Question

Read the excerpt below from Henry Haggard's reflective essay, "What I Learned at Sacred Heart." As you read, look for examples of rhetoric.

Though these bus trips happened a lot, they weren't a part of every day I volunteered. One day we went to play in the James River, and on another we visited the city's famous Children's Museum. (To the kids, this glorified playground was the talk of the town).
In the last sentence, what is "glorified playground" an example of?

personification
synecdoche
onomatopoeia
metonymy

Answer 1

syn·ec·do·che

Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that refers to a part of something is substituted to stand in for the whole, or vice versa. For example, the phrase “all hands on deck” is a demand for all of the crew to help, yet the word “hands”—just a part of the crew—stands in for the whole crew.

Answer 2

personification is the answer