Metalepsisとは意味・読み方・使い方

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From Latin metalēpsis, from Ancient Greek μετάληψις (metálēpsis, “succession”), from Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “after”) and λαμβάνω (lambánō, “to take”).

metalepsis (countable and uncountable, plural metalepses)

Examples (serial application of tropes)
Was this the face that launched a thousand ships and burnt the topless towers of Ilium? - Chistopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus Face is a metonymy for "person" or "woman" (Helen), a metonymy for Paris 's motivation, casus belli for the Trojan War (metaphorically, "launched a thousand ships"), which led to the sacking of Troy, metonymically invoked by "burnt the topless towers of Ilium".

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