Always glad to learn new terms. I knew what you were talking about, but never knew the name of it. I did, however, expect a reference to Metalica, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, or Motorhead or .... Leo Sayer, who made Megadeath a real possibility.
One of the harder things I had to do when writing Tranith Argan is to rid my writing of any modern reference or anything that would ground the story to our world. So not only could I never use “Great Caesar’s ghost!”, I couldn’t even use “out of the frying pan and into the fire.” I had to make my own variations of phrases and concepts, but it’s hard because we say such things all the time.
When I was reading through the examples for metalepsis, I noticed my mind naturally categorizes them as "allusions." Is there a meaningful distinction between metalepsis and allusion that I'm missing?
Always glad to learn new terms. I knew what you were talking about, but never knew the name of it. I did, however, expect a reference to Metalica, Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, or Motorhead or .... Leo Sayer, who made Megadeath a real possibility.
Or the 1970's Sci-fi adult comic series. 😆
One of the harder things I had to do when writing Tranith Argan is to rid my writing of any modern reference or anything that would ground the story to our world. So not only could I never use “Great Caesar’s ghost!”, I couldn’t even use “out of the frying pan and into the fire.” I had to make my own variations of phrases and concepts, but it’s hard because we say such things all the time.
When I was reading through the examples for metalepsis, I noticed my mind naturally categorizes them as "allusions." Is there a meaningful distinction between metalepsis and allusion that I'm missing?