metalepsis
- noun
- /ˌmɛtəˈlɛpsɪs/
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metalepsis
- Using metalepsis allows us to use a familiar phrase in a different context, such as calling a car 'wheels'.
- synchronic metalepsis
- rhetorical metalepsis
- type of metalepsis
Examples
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Rhetorical metalepsis, therefore, is a device of long standing and does not necessarily have merely illusionistic effects.
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We will extend the term narrative metalepsis to all these transgressions.
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A couple of possible extensions of metalepsis along this line suggest themselves.
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As a recent conference on metalepsis in Paris has demonstrated, the topic has as yet hardly been exhausted.
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As we have seen in section 1, many examples of metalepsis do indeed consist largely of metaphoric strategies.
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But perhaps that is a problem affecting only illusionistic uses of metalepsis.
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In this essay, I would like to take Genette's analysis of metalepsis in three directions.
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Yet we find that metalepsis has a related synchronic, ahistorical modality as well.
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I was at first rather puzzled why this technical ploy should be linked with metalepsis by Genette.
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Margherita's relation to metalepsis, however, is not limited to violations within the diegetic level of narration.
Academic text (2017)
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Etymology
Metalepsis comes from Greek parts meta- meaning 'beyond' and -lepsis meaning 'taking', and you can remember meta- from the familiar word metaphor. So, it literally means 'taking beyond', which fits the modern use where a phrase from one image is 'taken' into a new context to give a layered or surprising meaning.