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
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.