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Syllepsis

Syllepsis logo #10101) Zeugma
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syllepsis

syllepsis logo #22641figure where word related to two others differently
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Syllepsis

Syllepsis logo #21002• (n.) A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time. • (n.) The agreement of a verb or adjective with one, rather than another, of two nouns, with either of which it might agree in gender, number, etc.; as, rex et regina beati.
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Syllepsis

Syllepsis logo #22385A specialized form of zeugma in which the meaning of a verb cleverly changes halfway through a sente
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Syllepsis

Syllepsis logo #20972Syl·lep'sis noun [ Latin , from Greek sy`llhpsis a taking together, from .... See syllable , noun ] 1. (Rhet.) A figure of speech by which a word is used in a literal and metaphorical sense at the same time. 2. (Gram.) The...
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Syllepsis

Syllepsis logo #20166See zeugma.
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Syllepsis

Syllepsis logo #20165use of a word with two others, with each of which it is understood differently.
*We must all hang together or assuredly we will all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin
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syllepsis

syllepsis logo #20400[n] - use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one
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syllepsis

syllepsis logo #21009syllepsis Related-word units meaning same: auto-; equ-; homeo-; homo-; iso-; pari-; peer-; tauto-.
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Syllepsis

Syllepsis logo #23196A word modifying others in appropriate, though often incongruous ways
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syllepsis

syllepsis logo #20974 noun use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one
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syllepsis

syllepsis logo #21199the use of a word or expression to perform two syntactic functions, esp. to modify two or more words of which at least one does not agree in number, case, or gender, as the use of are in Neither he nor we are willing. Cf.
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