Synecto---WHAT??!!

What this activity made me think of was a friend's grandmother, Talin. She always speaks in metaphors that sound very much like synectoches. Metaphors I've heard of... but what I've never heard of is a synectoche (sp). Between Natasha and I, we were trying to figure out what this word meant as we took on this activity. We had no way idea how we were going to complete this activity without knowing what the word meant. We thought that by figuring out this type of metaphor, it would better help us complete the activity. The real challenge wasnt figuring out what the underlined words stood for, but coming up with what synectoche meant. We thought that the underlined words/phrases stood for other larger concepts. We later found out that what we came up with wasn't very far off from the definition of synectoche. I think it would've really helped Natasha and I to have known before hand, what the word meant. However, it probably wouldnt have been as much fun as it was to figure it out.