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

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa