4-“for to the noble mind Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.”
(Shakespeare, 2011, 3. 1. 100).
Ophelia in this line is talking to what she thought her lover Hamlet.
The occasion was that she wanted to give back some gifts that she received
from him. The type of synecdoche (plural stands for singular) is represented
by the word “givers”. The plural form of the word ‘giver’ literally refers to
two or more than two people when they process the act of giving (McIntosh,
2013). The synecdochic meaning, the figurative, is simultaneously different
since it refers to a singular person that is to say Hamlet. The cause behind
such use by Ophelia is to show some respect to the prince as the status
between the two is different. In accordance with Haverkamp (2011), who
illustrated that Ophelia referred to him as “givers” as she was not talking to
Hamlet in particular, but the givers in general and at the same she signified
herself as singular “noble mind” (Shakespeare, 2011, 3. 1. 100).
Furthermore, the‘generalizing synecdoche’ has a subtype that requires
a less effort due to the use of words with general meanings to give specific
details as the next subsection demonstrates:
3.1.3 The Genus Stands for the Species
This subtype is the third and the final subtype of the generalizing
synecdoche as Mey (2009) proclaimed. Such type has expressions with
general meaning, but it signifies less meaning than these expressions have. In
other words, the words if used in their literal sense, they would give broader
meaning. For example, in the next quotation the genus “bird” was used by
Hamlet instead of its species ‘falcon’ which embodied how the genus stands
for its speciessometimes:
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