Talk:Metalepsis

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Would this include Cockney rhyming slang? Like (example stolen from the recent movie Ocean's 11): "We're in Barney" refers to "Barney Rubble" rhymes with "trouble" means "We're in trouble."

One of those connections is, perhaps, Metonymy (name-for-name); I'm not sure the rhyming connection fits any rule of metonymy I know.

I think that's a perfect example. Metalepsis is, as the article say,

often a combination of other figures of speech -- in this case, a special kind of metonymy (using a name for another name that's associated it) and then the rhyming substitution (I don't know what to call that -- it's a kind of euphemism, I suppose). Tom 11:46, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Using 'Metalepsis' in a bigger way

Russel Samolsky is the author of a book titled Metaleptic Machines: Kafka, Kabbalah, Shoah.

Kabbalah, for one, is a tree of associations and symbolically connected ideas. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.208.134.206 (talk) 22:45, 16 March 2007 (UTC).

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