Zeugma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - The Diigo Meta page

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  Katie Day
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  Francis Israel

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  bk mcd

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• 28 Oct 09
  

  clizzin

  I just love that there is such a thing as a 'zeugma.'

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• 29 Jan 09
  

  electrasteph

  a figure of speech describing the joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a single common verb or noun. A zeugma employs both ellipsis, the omission of words which are easily understood, and parallelism, the balance of several words or phrases.

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• 27 Feb 08
  

  Tashfeen Mahmud
  • The prozeugma (also called the Synezeugmenon or the Latin praeiunctio) is a zeugma where a verb in the first part of a sentence governs several later clauses in series.
  • 'Mr Jones took his coat and his leave'
• 23 Oct 07
  

  Scott Leslie

  Zeugma (from the Greek word "ζεύγμα", meaning "yoke") is a figure of speech describing the joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a single common verb or noun. zeugma as mashup, another great word of the day

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