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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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