metalepsis

English

Etymology

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Noun

metalepsis (plural metalepses)

1. (rhetoric) The metonymical substitution of one word by another which is itself a metonym.
2. (rhetoric) The result of a series of metaphors
3. (rhetoric) The unexpressed serial application of tropes of substitution.

Synonyms

• transumptio

See also

• Metalepsis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia