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Definition of Metalepsis
1. Noun. Substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another.
Definition of Metalepsis
1. 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.
Definition of Metalepsis
1. Noun. (rhetoric) The metonymical substitution of one word by another which is itself a metonym. ¹
2. Noun. (rhetoric) The result of a series of metaphors ¹
3. Noun. (rhetoric) The unexpressed serial application of tropes of substitution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Metalepsis
Literary usage of Metalepsis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society by Bibliographical Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"(a) Synecdoche membri, with instances of catachresis, metalepsis, hyperbole,
allegoria. (y3) Synecdoche speciei, with cases of metalepsis, catachresis, ..."
2. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"... And add thy name, O Sun, to tell thee how 1 hate thy beams.—MILTON. 2. One of
the few the immortal names That were not born to die.—HALLECK. metalepsis. ..."
3. The Baptismal Question: A Discussion of the Baptismal Question by Joseph Hardy Towne, Parsons Cooke, William Hague (1842)
"He calls it a metalepsis. And what is this? Of all tropes, it expresses most ...
In rhetoric, the definition of a metalepsis is, " a continuation of a trope ..."
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