Metalepsis

Definition:

• (n.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

Compare metalepsis with other words:

metalepses vs. metalepsis

metalepsis vs. metaleptic

metalepsis vs. transumptio

metalepsis vs. trope

metalepsis vs. metaphor

metalepsis vs. series

metalepsis vs. metonymical

metalepsis vs. metonymy