“Look at your object of study in terms of rhetorical organization and rhetorical ‘devices.’ Specifically, discuss one rhetorical device mentioned by Horn (Synecdoche, Metonymy, or Metaphor) that you see in your object of study”
The article about metaphor, metonymy, and synecdoche was pretty confusing for an everyday reader. To apply these terms to my digital device is challenging because the program I have chosen, indesign, is something that allows the user to make whatever they feel. Its almost a tool for creating these terms for the user. Indesign uses metaphor because the entire goal of the program itself is to create layouts for any media. Therefore it is designed to create metaphors almost. What I understand of metonymy is that it is something that is not called by its own name, or at least that’s how wikipedia helped me understand it, but in terms of indesign the program itself assists the user in creating layouts. In that sense someone may call the work their layout instead of their “indesign.” Then there is synecdoche, the most confusing and difficult to apply to my digital device. Overall it is a simultaneous understanding of something. Saying one thing and understanding it in a completely different way. This may happen throughout the entire program. While you use it you may think of an idea or something you want to do next, such as erase what you’ve just created, or crop a pictures, or even to color in an entire page. When you think of doing all these within the program your actually just pressing a button and magically changing a page to red, or cutting the edge of a picture with just a mouse. This is the best way I can understand synecdoche within my device. Overall they all intertwine to accomplish the same thing, something meaning something else.
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