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I see him drinking weak tea, eating a stale chapati. Here ‘stale chapati’ stands for stale food/non-nourishing food or diet, where the part symbolizes the whole, i.e. food. - English

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I see him drinking weak tea, Eating a stale chapati.

Here ‘stale chapati’ stands for stale food/non-nourishing food or diet, where the part symbolizes the whole, i.e. food. Guess the name of the figure of speech.

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I see him drinking weak tea, Eating a stale chapati.

Synecdoche (Part for Whole) -  Here, ‘chapati (part)’ represents ‘food (whole)’.

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