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Metalepsis Moderate

Metalepsis has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another

2

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.

Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
metonymy
Rhyming Words
sis asis ssis osis csis psis isis apsis iasis mysis oasis arsis ensis assis basis lysis tasis sepsis miosis deesis
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