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Which line in this excerpt from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot uses synecdoche? Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets And watched the smoke that rises from the pipes Of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows? I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

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The Answer Is I Should Have Been A Pair Of Ragged Claws

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Synecdoche is a figure of speech that uses a part to symbolize the whole. So the correct answer is the sentence which uses the word a pair of ragged claws. The pair of ragged claws is a part that represents a whole. 
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