Associations to the word «Metalepsis»

Wiktionary

METALEPSIS, noun. (rhetoric) 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.

Dictionary definition

METALEPSIS, noun. Substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne