metalepsis

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: met=a=lep=sis

CIDE DICTIONARY

metalepsis, n. [L., fr. Gr. participation, alteration, fr. to partake, to take in exchange; beyond + to take.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

metalepsis

Metaphor

N metaphor, figure of speech, facon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism, phrase, figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis, metonymy, synecdoche, autonomasia, irony, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable, allusion, adumbration, application, exaggeration, hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy), metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical, ironical, colloquial, tropical, so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.