Greed is the accumulation of possessions in excess. A prime example in the Shakespearean play is the greedy grasp for the kingship that Macbeth [c. 1014-August 15, 1057] and his Lady [b. c. 1015]...
Synecdoche is a special kind of metonymy in which a thing is names after its part or, vice versa, a part is denoted by the whole thing. It is used to avoid repetition or to enrich poetic imagery....
The term "synecdoche" is a type of figure of speech. It can mean to use a word for a part as a whole, or an item as a substitute for an entire group, or to represent an object by its function. This...