Synecdoche as memory

This whole memory system through item or word or image association reminded me of a very ominous word of late: synecdoche. In essence, I suppose that is what the system is, at its core; use a smaller, easier to remember trigger to remind you of the whole. Don't remember Christ being reborn and rising on the whatever day and returning from his cave and all that, just remember Easter. Especially manifested in our brief example from Yates. The witnesses and their testimonials are not what one remembers—a string of facts: a group of people and what they did—but the testicles, a private part of a male's anatomy, much more provacative and much less complex. We see the man in the bed holding these, and the image is there, not a string of marks that represent the letters of the information reguarding the testimonials, but a specific image that we can easily remember and savvy the implied whole represented by the part. While perhaps not litterally a metaphor nor a synecdoche, we use a part of the entirety, an image representing a piece of the informational whole, to conjure the implied particulars of the thing or things that image is meant to convey us.