Metaphor & Figuration
Metalepsis
A figure built on another figure — a reference the reader reaches only through a chain of associations. In narrative, it names a break between levels: a character addressing the author, a narrator entering the story.
"I have drunk milk from the cow that scattered the seed" — reaching an idea through chained figures
Don't confuse it with Metonymy. Simple metonymy makes one associative hop; metalepsis needs at least two. The narrative sense (frame-breaking) is the common modern usage.
In the Reader — 2 excerpts
Now I am ready to tell how bodies are changed
of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and
The rest of the family
Metaphor Simile Catachresis Metonymy Synecdoche Personification Prosopopoeia Pathetic Fallacy Transferred Epithet / Hypallage Symbol Allusion Mythopoesis