Metalepsis Definition

noun

(rhetoric) The metonymical substitution of one word by another which is itself a metonym.

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(rhetoric) The result of a series of metaphors.

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(rhetoric) The unexpressed serial application of tropes of substitution.

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Other Word Forms of Metalepsis

Noun

Singular:
metalepsis
Plural:
metalepses

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