metalepsis
Meaning
Noun
- 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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Origin
- From Latin metalēpsis, from Ancient Greek μετάληψις.
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