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Metalepsis
see synonyms of metalepsisNoun
1. metalepsis
substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another
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Metalepsis
see synonyms of metalepsisnoun plural -ses (-siːz)
a figurative substitution in which a concept is described by a word that is distanced from that concept by multiple, usually metonymical, links
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Metalepsis
see synonyms of metalepsisn. pl. met·a·lep·ses (-sēz′)
1. A figure of speech in which a word or phrase makes indirect reference to another figure of speech. For example, in "His new leaf turned out to be short-lived, and his life spiraled back out of control," "new leaf" alludes to the expression "turn over a new leaf."
2. A narrative device that involves transgressing the boundary between a fictional world and the real world or between two discrete fictional worlds, as when a character from one TV series makes an appearance in a different series.
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