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[sylvar]

"This vehicle is not responsible for objects coming from road" is a beguilingly personifying synecdoche.

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[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

[Latella]
I've been to Schenectady. "Beguiling" is hardly the word I'd use.

...oh. Neeeevermind.
[/Latella]

Not sure I'm following you, though. Where's the whole-part, general-specific dynamic?

[sylvar.livejournal.com]

Have I used the wrong rhetorical term? I meant the vehicle standing in for its occupant, like "The White House announced today that..."

[hitchkitty.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. "Synechdoche" usually refers to part-as-whole, like "ten sails" meaning "ten ships", or vice-versa. I suppose it could also apply to occupant-for-occupied.

See, I'd assumed you were quoting a disclaimer from a commercial or an owner's manual. Now I'm guessing it was a bumper sticker.