I’d call it metalepsis — the article made for the firm, and the firm for the people running it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf] Reference

Yes - you discovered the intertextual echoes I so carefully manufactured -- and so my theory of metalepsis is proved to be true!.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Trail of NT Wrong, Part 3] Reference

But everyone presently apprehends that this expression is figurative, the abstract being put for the concrete by a metalepsis, and charity is said to do that which a man endued with that grace will do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pneumatologia] Reference

But I readily endure a catachrestic metalepsis, when it is evident concerning a thing, although it is my wish that our enunciations were always the best accommodated to the natures of the things themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference

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).    From Wordnik.com.  [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference

This film is a brilliantly executed symbol that expresses the tension of the experience of Infinite Being in metalepsis with being at the eschaton.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Monitor] Reference

"In a metalepsis, a word is substituted metonymically for a word in a previous trope, so that a metalepsis can be called, maddeningly but accurately, a metonymy of a metonymy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jihad Monitor] Reference

I’d call it metalepsis — the article made for the firm, and the firm for the people running it.mischiefQuote.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf] Reference

A thematic reading and its terms — death, finitude, history, temporality, and mutability — to a rhetorical reading and its terms — metaphor, metonymy, metalepsis — should not mislead us into thinking that the thematic has simply been left behind, surpassed, as though de Man had succeeded in reducing temporality and history to a question of merely tropological substitutions and transformations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History] Reference

March 10, 2009 9:49 AM metalepsis said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Gasp of Inerrancy] Reference

That's the case, but Lyons overlooks the song's more prodigious strength, which moves in the opposite direction: its pervasive use of metalepsis (by that I mean "a rhetorically defined moment of poetic echo"; a trope of diachrony as John Hollander describes it in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Hebrew Poetry] Reference

metalepsis said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Willie Dye] Reference

metalepsis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Do I Infernokrush?] Reference