Login
Ideas
Quotes
Lessons
Words
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
Search:
Dictionary
All Posts
Search
Search
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
Login
/
Register - It's free!
Username
Password
Login
Cancel
Forgot
password?
metalepsis
Definition
Cancel
Bank This Word!
My Lists
Login to Create a List
Register for Free!
Keep Public?
metalepsis
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
Words Related to
metalepsis
!
metonymy
,
dead metaphor
,
metaphor
,
tralation
,
figure of speech
,
hypallage
,
rhetorical device
,
hyperbaton
,
tropist
,
simile
,
meronymy
,
metonym
,
tropology
,
hysteron proteron
,
holonymy
,
brachyology
,
onomatope
,
tralatition
,
trope
,
ideophone
,
set phrase
,
epanadiplosis
,
polyseme
,
agnomination
,
expressive style
,
semantic relation
,
noun phrase
,
allegory
,
sememe
,
autological
,
allegorist
,
hypernymy
,
brachylogy
,
verb phrase
,
mutandis
,
function word
,
briticism
,
antiphrasis
,
bahuvrihi
,
sematology
,
anacoluthia
,
tapinosis
,
analogy
,
prosopopoeia
,
content word
,
symbolism
,
semasiological
,
cacozelia
,
analogist
,
tagmemics
,
pathetic fallacy
,
common noun
,
annomination
,
synecdoche
,
designatum
,
typologist
,
kyriology
,
logology
,
concrete noun
,
cynghanedd
,
periphrase
,
denotatum
,
allusion
,
personification
,
obsoletism
,
demonstrative pronoun
,
orismology
,
paradiastole
,
relative clause
,
parelcon
,
onomatopoeia
,
onym
,
paronym
,
language unit
,
idiom
,
logograph
,
dorism
,
apocopation
,
epanorthosis
,
indefinite pronoun
,
adnominal
,
connotational
,
major form class
,
polysyndeton
,
nounize
,
hypostatization
,
representational process
,
adnoun
,
tagmeme
,
cockneyism
,
ambage
,
anthimeria
,
verbify
,
linguistic relation
,
phrase
,
heterophemy
,
word form
,
vernacularism
,
parusia
,
synizesis
,
metalepsis
Examples by Brain Bank Users