“Movies are about life-changing events in these character’s lives.” Screenwriter John August Scriptnotes, Ep. 218 The 25 cent word of the day is synecdoche. Author/Princeton professor Joyce Carol Oates uses the word synecdoche in her MasterClass talk as a literary device meaning “one stands for the whole” and states that “it is the principle of […]

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