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PRONUNCIATION OF METALEPTIC

metaleptic  [ˌmetəˈleptɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF METALEPTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Metaleptic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES METALEPTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of metaleptic in the English dictionary

The definition of metaleptic in the dictionary is relating to metalepses.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH METALEPTIC


antiseptic
ˌæntɪˈsɛptɪk
apocalyptic
əˌpɒkəˈlɪptɪk
aseptic
əˈsɛptɪk
Coptic
ˈkɒptɪk
cryptic
ˈkrɪptɪk
dyspeptic
dɪsˈpɛptɪk
elliptic
ɪˈlɪptɪk
epanaleptic
ɪpˌænəˈleptɪk
epileptic
ˌɛpɪˈlɛptɪk
haptic
ˈhæptɪk
optic
ˈɒptɪk
peptic
ˈpɛptɪk
septic
ˈsɛptɪk
skeptic
ˈskɛptɪk
sylleptic
sɪˈleptɪk
synaptic
sɪˈnæptɪk
synoptic
sɪˈnɒptɪk
triptych
ˈtrɪptɪk
tryptic
ˈtrɪptɪk
uptick
ˈʌptɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE METALEPTIC

metal detector
metal fatigue
metal polish
metal spraying
metal tape
metal-like
metal.
metalanguage
metaldehyde
metalepses
metaleptical
metalhead
metalinguistic
metalinguistics
metalist
metalization
metalize
metall.
metalled
metallic

WORDS THAT END LIKE METALEPTIC

acataleptic
analeptic
antiepileptic
bradypeptic
cataleptic
catheptic
eupeptic
Eurosceptic
fiber optic
fibre optic
narcoleptic
neuroleptic
nympholeptic
panoptic
parableptic
postepileptic
postsynaptic
proleptic
protreptic
sceptic

Synonyms and antonyms of metaleptic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «metaleptic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF METALEPTIC

Find out the translation of metaleptic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of metaleptic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «metaleptic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

转喻
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

metaleptic
570 millions of speakers

English

metaleptic
510 millions of speakers

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metaleptic
380 millions of speakers
ar

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metaleptic
280 millions of speakers

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metaleptic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

metaléptica
270 millions of speakers

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metaleptic
260 millions of speakers

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metaleptic
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Metaleptik
190 millions of speakers

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metaleptic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

metaleptic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

metaleptic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Metaleptic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

metaleptic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

metaleptic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मेटालेप्टीक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

metaleptic
70 millions of speakers

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metaleptic
65 millions of speakers

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metaleptic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

metaleptic
40 millions of speakers

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metaleptic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μεταληπτικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

metaleptic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

metaleptic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

metaleptic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of metaleptic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «METALEPTIC»

The term «metaleptic» is normally little used and occupies the 138.716 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «METALEPTIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «metaleptic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «metaleptic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about metaleptic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «METALEPTIC»

Discover the use of metaleptic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to metaleptic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Narratology Beyond Literary Criticism: Mediality, Disciplinarity
Ryan 1991 and 2001) in a coherent possible world and that it thus reminds them, through the frequently comic 'impossibility' of the metaleptic transgression, of the fictionality of the represented world.31 As such, metalepsis is also an implicitly ...
Jan Christoph Meister, Tom Kindt, Wilhelm Schernus, 2005
2
Breaking the Frame: Metalepsis and the Construction of the ...
This cutting-edge work of narrative theory examines how "metalepsis"--the transgression of the boundaries between narrative levels--has been used to construct the postmodern narrative subject.
Debra Malina, 2002
3
The Composition of Mutanabbī's Panegyrics to Sayf Al-Dawla
Metalepsis The transgression of temporal and spatial boundaries is seen more clearly in the metaleptic reversals and the miracle episodes. Metalepsis is a literary trope which "places the present before the past, effect before cause, epigone ...
András Hámori, 1991
4
Metalepsis in Popular Culture
Popular music is essentially a metaleptic form. It links “musical and extramusical discursive spheres [such that] not only are musical meanings (and hence also the structures of subjectivity associated with them) constituted in (extramusical) ...
Karin Kukkonen, Sonja Klimek, 2011
5
Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions: The Hermeneutical ...
In a sense, all communication is metaleptic.185 Yet, not all metalepsis has rhetorical signi¿cance as such.186 Rather, an audience can only judge metaleptic validity when a metalepsis appears to be marked. Unmarked metalepsis, in this ...
J. David Stark, 2014
6
The Figure of Echo: A Mode of Allusion in Milton and After
V. Echo. Metaleptic. Implicit in the previous discussions has been the treatment of allusive echo, leading from poem to poem, as being itself a trope of the later text. But rhetoric, like many theories of signification, is a synchronic study; what we ...
John Hollander, 1981
7
Cast by Means of Figures: Herman Melville's Rhetorical ...
The story of Mardi repeats and represents, in its sprawling but futile quest, the ironic and metaleptic modes of time and enablement discovered by the author of Typee. In contrast, the synecdochic structure of the novel, its internalized freedom , ...
Bryan Collier Short, 1992
8
Unfinalized Moments: Essays in the Development of ...
Is the reader witness to a metaleptic event or a schizophrenic episode? The schizophrenic episode can be thought of as non-text-based, first-degree metaleptic event. In the case of the schizophrenic episode the individual temporarily moves ...
Derek Parker Royal, 2011
9
Schoenberg and Words: The Modernist Years
Nothing could radiate which was not light itself; and here only ideas are light,"TM These curious, luminous, and nostalgic statements conflate several metaphors, producing metaleptic tension. The epigraph first makes the Cratylist assertion ...
Charlotte Marie Cross, Russell A. Berman, 2000
10
Published Essays, 1966-1985
The exploration of the metaleptic reality, of the Platonic metaxy, as well as the articulation of the exploratory action through language symbols, in Plato's case of his myths, are the central concern of the philosopher's efforts. Modern: The ...
Eric Voegelin, Ellis Sandoz, 1990

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «METALEPTIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term metaleptic is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Forward Thinking about “Reading Backwards' Conclusions
8) the use of the OT by the Gospel writers is metaleptic, which is to say it alludes to the larger context of various texts it cites, and a fuller ... «Patheos, Mar 15»
2
Out Of The Page Into The Sensual World: Jenny Hval Interviewed
... film's metaleptic narrative structure. Coincidentally, Meshes Of Voice is not the only piece of music released this year to be inspired by Deren. «The Quietus, Sep 14»
3
Shakespeare's Possible Worlds, by Simon Palfrey
Palfrey writes of “Shakespeare's metaleptic, catachretic, prosopopoeic use of words” and insists that “the hermeneutic act [is] figuring the ... «Times Higher Education, Aug 14»
4
Canonizer's Feast
He uses words that are not in every dictionary—apotropaic, acedia, metaleptic—but he uses them precisely and repeatedly, so students can ... «Brooklyn Rail, Jul 11»
5
Harold Bloom: An Uncommon Reader
But what trope is troping the concept of trope here? Transumption or metaleptic reversal, I would say, which is Nietzsche's favorite figure, the ... «New York Times, May 11»
6
Space and Spatiality in the Works of Richard Rolle, the Cloud of …
Davis's contribution is her remarkable exegesis of the nature and effects of spatiality within the metaleptic event, where being exists in ... «Metapsychology, Jun 08»

REFERENCE
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