Learn English – Word designating something as being representative of a whole

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I'm looking for a word similar to synecdoche, but without the literary-device meaning. It designates something as being representative of a whole. I believe I picked this up in a David Foster Wallace essay.

The word would be used, for example, to describe Kanye West as representing American egotism as a whole.

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I believe you're looking for epitome:

a perfect example: an example that represents or expresses something very well

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