Metallage; or, a Changing Over A different subject of thought substituted for the original subject
Me-tal´-la-gee . Greek μεταλλαγή, from μετά (meta), beyond, or across; and ἀλλαγή (allagee), a change, exchange (from ἀλλάσσω, allasso). Hence, Metallage means a taking over in exchange .
In this figure the word taken over is exchanged for a separate object of thought.
The Latins called it SUPPOSITIO, substitution, and MATERIALIS, the mother stuff: i.e., one material out of which something else is made. The figure Metallage is used when a word is taken as the material, and out of it another object of thought is made and substituted.
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