metalepsis
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English[edit]
Examples (serial application of tropes) |
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Was this the face that launched a thousand ships |
Etymology[edit]
From Latin metalēpsis, from Ancient Greek μετάληψις (metálēpsis, “succession”).
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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Translations[edit]
strict sense
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See also[edit]
- metalepsis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia