different between malaphor vs metalepsis

English

Blend of malapropism +? metaphor; attributed to Lawrence Harrison in the Washington Post article "Searching for Malaphors" (Aug. 6, 1976).

malaphor (plural malaphors)

(rare) An idiom blend: an error in which two similar figures of speech are merged, producing an often nonsensical result.

From Latin metal?psis, from Ancient Greek ????????? (metál?psis, “succession”).

metalepsis (countable and uncountable, plural metalepses)

(rhetoric) A rhetorical device whereby one word is metonymically substituted for another word which is itself a metonym; more broadly, a metaphor consisting of a series of embedded metonyms or rhetorical substitutions.

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