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Metalepsis (from ‹See Tfd›Greek: μετάληψις) is a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context.[1]
- ^ Joseph Hardy Towne; William Hague; Parsons Cooke (1842). The Baptismal Question: A Discussion of the Baptismal Question. Gould, Kendall and Lincoln. pp. 2–. Retrieved 19 May 2013.