Definition of "metalepsis" []

• The metonymical substitution of one word by another which is itself a metonym. (noun)
• The result of a series of metaphors (noun)
• The unexpressed serial application of tropes of substitution. (noun)

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• "I’d call it metalepsis — the article made for the firm, and the firm for the people running it."
• "Yes - you discovered the intertextual echoes I so carefully manufactured -- and so my theory of metalepsis is proved to be true!"
• "In fact, as de Man goes on to say, "the metaphor is not a metaphor since it has no proper meaning, no sens propre" (RCC 201) and could more properly be called "the metonymic reversal of past and present that rhetoricians call metalepsis" (RCC 201)."