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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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Solution
I see him drinking weak tea, Eating a stale chapati.
Synecdoche (Part for Whole) - Here, ‘chapati (part)’ represents ‘food (whole)’.
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