" For the nature of metalepsis is that it is an intermediate step, as it were, to that which is metaphorically expressed, signifying nothing in itself, but affording a passage to something.

" Perhaps the most common example of metalepsis in narrative occurs when a narrator intrudes upon another world being narrated.

Thus, as in the case of Pirandello's Sei personaggi, the typical traits of a metalepsis can here also be recognized: a fictional representation consisting of several distinct worlds and levels, among which unorthodox transgression occur.

In a paper on the atomic theory, published in 1826, he anticipated to a remarkable extent some ideas which are frequently supposed to belong to a later period ; and the continuation of these studies led him to the ideas about substitution ( metalepsis ) which were developed about 1839 into the theory ( Older Style Theory ) that in organic chemistry there are certain types which remain unchanged even when their hydrogen is replaced by an equivalent quantity of a halide element.

A synonym for metalepsis is transumption, derived from the Latin transsumptio invented by

" In a metalepsis, a word is substituted metonymically for a word in a previous trope, so that a metalepsis can be called, maddeningly but accurately, a metonymy of a metonymy.

In narratology ( and specifically in the theories of Gerard Genette ), a paradoxical transgression of the boundaries between narrative levels or logically distinct worlds is also called metalepsis.

In general, narratorial metalepsis arises most often when an omniscient or external narrator begins to interact directly with the events being narrated, especially if the narrator is separated in space and time from these events.

Referring to the Law of Causality, Hume wrote, " I never asserted so absurd a proposition as that something could arise without a cause.

Referring to those times in his life when something became manifest, a deep realization, he would then attempt to write this epiphanic realization in a fragment.

Referring to that article, Hickok had said to the Godwin, “ I suppose I am a ‘ rotund lady with a husky voice ’ and ‘ baggy clothes ,’ words, but honestly don ’ t believe my manner is ‘ peremptory .’” Hickok went on to say that, if they felt that way about her then, “ Why the Hell CAN ’ T they leave me alone ?” In a letter ( February, 1934 ) to Godwin, Hickok admitted that the Time article had upset her: “… that damned article in Time Magazine, has made something of a wreck out of me … as I came in, they handed me, with beaming smiles, a copy of Time.

Referring to the floodplain as a lake may be misleading, as less than half of Lake Chad is covered by water through an entire year.

Referring to him by a code name, Barnave received his letters through an unknown similarly codenamed intermediary.

Referring to this, Akiba says, " Happy are ye, O Israelites, that ye purify yourselves through your heavenly Father, as it is said ( Jer.

Referring to current television programming, the Red Channels introduction declares that " everal commercially sponsored dramatic series are used as sounding boards, particularly with reference to current issues in which the Party is critically interested: " academic freedom ", " civil rights ", " peace ", the H-bomb, etc .... With radios in most American homes and with approximately 5 million TV sets in use, the Cominform and the Communist Party USA now rely more on radio and TV than on the press and motion pictures as " belts " to transmit pro-Sovietism to the American public.

" Referring to the alleged LSD use, Marty said in another interview, " That was our look, those were the colors, everything we did had vivid colors, but there was no acid involved.

Referring to this incentive to reach an agreement, then-Senator Tony deBrum stated that it would be " insane " for the Marshallese people to put up with another 70 years of lack of access.

Referring to his next book, Jennifer Egan in The New York Times Book Review wrote, " In The Third Brother, McDonell delivers another remarkable novel.

Referring to the Communist takeover in Cuba in 1959, the CIA station chief in Leopoldville cabled the director to saying " Congo experiencing classic communist effort takeover government ... there may be little time to take action to avoid another Cuba ".

" Referring to the stage of human development which Rousseau associates with savages, Rousseau writes:

Referring to it as the inaccessible city which he had heard described but had never seen.

Referring to more recent events, Edward Chaney suggested that Pandosto ( and therefore Winter's Tale ) at least echoed the Earl of Oxford's suspicions about the paternity of his daughter ( grand-daughter of Lord Burghley ) and that a Sicilian connection ( which is at least a literary one ) would have rendered a conscious echo more likely.

Referring to herself as Titania, Shakespeare's Fairy Queen, Elisabeth expressed her intimate thoughts and desires in a large number of romantic poems, which served as a type of secret diary.

Referring to Hammond's accident while filming in 2006, in which he was almost killed, Lee joked, " I wish he had been decapitated and that his head had rolled off in front of his wife ".

Referring to Biblical stories which they had learned from Protestant missionaries, he compared them to " the children of Israel whom the Lord saved from their enemy and led into the Promised Land.

" While the 5th Amendment which was applicable in D. C. lacked an equal protection clause, Warren held that While equal protection is a more explicit safeguard against discrimination, the Court recognized that Referring to the technicalities raised by the case's location in the District of Columbia, the Court held that, in light of their decision in Brown that segregation in state public schools is prohibited by the constitution, it would be

Referring to the Fury miniseries, based on the character Nick Fury, which he co-created, Lee said, " I don't know why they're doing that.

Referring to the serial while discussing the early years of Doctor Who, the New Scientists Malcolm Peltu praised the script, acting and direction, although he was less complimentary about the scenary, which, he says, looks like cardboard.

Referring back the previous section, which focused on tactics developed during World War II, the North Vietnamese MiG-17 resorted to use of the Lufbery maneuver on occasion when cornered by faster F-4 Phantom fighters.

Referring to the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, in which over an estimated 200, 000 people died, the song used the phrase " screaming chinks " along with other offensive lyrics.

Referring to Lauridsen's sacred music, the musicologist and conductor Nick Strimple said he was " the only American composer in history who can be called a mystic, ( whose ) probing, serene work contains an elusive and indefinable ingredient which leaves the impression that all the questions have been answered ... From 1993 Lauridsen's music rapidly increased in international popularity, and by century's end he had eclipsed Randall Thompson as the most frequently performed American choral composer.

Referring to the 1995 Notification, he said Rydén " certainly did not " operate with the approval of the Church and that " the advice to Catholics is not to attend her gatherings due to the suspect nature of her alleged revelations, which contain doctrinal errors.

Referring to the show's web site, he invited the Culture Secretary to " join me in playing How Low Can You Bungalow, a test to see your response to grossly embarrassing personal situations, largely of a lavatorial nature ; Pants Dancers in the Hall of Fame, photos of children with underwear on their heads ; Make Dick Sick, a game which I think speaks for itself ; and finally Bunged Up, in which you play a character in a sewage system avoiding turtles ' poos coming from various lavatories ".

Referring to those areas designated " prohibited zones ," al-Majid ordered that " all persons captured in those villages shall be detained and interrogated by the security services and those between the ages of 15 and 70 shall be executed after any useful information has been obtained from them, of which we should be duly notified.

Referring to the poem as " The Red Wheelbarrow " has been frowned upon by some critics, including Neil Easterbrook, who said that it gives the text " a specifically different frame " than that which Williams originally intended.

Referring to the photo of the cam assembly ( often simply called a cam ; it was not meant to be disassembled ), the holes in the side plates at the lower left are for the assembly's pivot rod, which is fixed to the frame.

Referring to a common salt of fluoride, sodium fluoride ( NaF ), the lethal dose for most adult humans is estimated at 5 to 10 g ( which is equivalent to 32 to 64 mg / kg elemental fluoride / kg body weight ).

Referring to lamps slung from the deckhead which swing while at sea.

Referring with respect to an adult neurotic to ' the omnipotence which he ascribed to his thoughts and feelings ', Freud reckoned that ' this belief is a frank acknowledgement of a relic of the old megalomania of infancy '.

Referring to Centre, President Woodrow Wilson gave an annual speech to Princeton alumni in which he stated: " There is a little college down in Kentucky which in sixty years has graduated more men who have acquired prominence and fame than has Princeton in her 150 years.

" Referring to the Restoring Honor rally which was promoted by Glenn Beck and held on August 28, 2010, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., " You have white people armed, demanding the end to the presidency.