metalepsis
nounEtymology
From Latin metalēpsis, from Ancient Greek μετάληψις (metálēpsis, “succession”), from Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “after”) and λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).
- derived from μετάληψις
- derived from metalēpsis
Definitions
A rhetorical device whereby one word is metonymically substituted for another word which…
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.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for metalepsis. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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