Metaleptic
əˈlɛp noun, plural met·a·lep·ses 
[-seez] . Rhetoric.
[-seez] . Rhetoric. the use of metonymy to replace a word already used figuratively.
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| metalepsis | |
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| substituting metonymy of one figurative sense for another |
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Metaleptic
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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