'metaleptic' in David Foster Wallace: Fiction and Form | Bookmarker

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(from Greek) a figure of speech in which a word or a phrase from figurative speech is used in a new context

deliberately ambiguous metaleptic shifts in narration

—p.23 Vocality: 'A Flickering Hand, Dead and Cold': Reading Wallace's Ghosts (15) by David Hering

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