- metalepsis as a noun:
- 1
metalepsis
noun
1 metalepsis
Substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another.
Roget 521: figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.], way of speaking, colloquialism. phrase etc. 566; figure, trope, metaphor, enallage†, catachresis†; metonymy [Gramm.], ... show more
Dutch: metalepsis
Polish: metalepsja
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