metalepsis
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Etymology edit
From Latin metalēpsis, from Ancient Greek μετάληψις (metálēpsis, “succession”).
From Ancient Greek μετα- (meta-), from μετά (metá), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀕𐀲 (me-ta), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *meth₂ (“in the middle”) and Ancient Greek λῆψις (lêpsis, “seizure”) and λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Noun edit
metalepsis (countable and uncountable, plural metalepses)
- (rhetoric) A rhetorical device whereby one word is metonymically substituted for another word which is itself a metonym; more broadly, a metaphor consisting of a series of embedded metonyms or rhetorical substitutions.
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships |
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See also edit
- metalepsis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia