| Figure Name | metallage |
| Source | Bullinger (1898) ("metallage; or, a changing over") |
| Earliest Source | |
| Synonyms | a changing over, suppositio, materialis |
| Etymology | Gr. from meta "beyond" or "across allagee "a change, exchange" from allasso hence metallage "a taking over in exchange" |
| Type | Trope |
| Linguistic Domain |
Semantic |
| Definition |
Rhetfig: When a word or phrase is treated as an object in a discourse. 1. A different subject of thought substituted for the original subject... In this figure the word taken over is exchanged for a separate object of though. //(Bullinger, 682)// |
| Example |
Rhetfig: "Whenever I see you, all you give me is a bucketful of 'I'm almost done'. 1. Hos. 4:18. -"Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, 'Give ye.'" //(Bullinger, 682)// |
| Kind Of | Substitution |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | |
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Robert Clapperton |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | |
| Reviewed | No |