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Noun Concept
Categories: Figures of speech, Narrative techniques
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metalepsis  Metalepsi
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Substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another WordNet 3.0
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Substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Metalepsis is a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context. Wikipedia
Figure of speech Wikidata
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. Wiktionary
Strict sense. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
metonymy
narrative
Rhetorical device
FACET OF
story within a story
NAMED AFTER
metalepsis
NAMED BY
Gérard Genette
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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Wikidata
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