Metalepsis definitions

Metalepsis

1) Literary technique 2) Metonymy
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Metalepsis

Metalepsis (from Greek μετάληψις) is a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context. ==Examples== ==Quotes== For the nature of metalepsis is that it is an intermediate step, as it were, to that which is metaphorically expressed, signifying nothing in itself, but affording a passage to someth...
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metalepsis

metonymy of a double or indirect kind
Found on http://phrontistery.info/m.html

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Metalepsis

change of grip on a spear.
Found on http://s_van_dorst.tripod.com/Ancient_Warfare/Greece/greek_glossary.html

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Metalepsis

• (n.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/metalepsis/

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Metalepsis

Met`a·lep'sis noun ; plural Metalepses . [ Latin , from Greek ... participation, alteration, from ... to partake, to take in exchange; ... beyond + ... to take.] (Rhet.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or mor...
Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/55

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metalepsis

[n] - substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=metalepsis

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metalepsis

noun substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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