zeugma and syllepsis. This article categorizes these two figures of speech into four types, based on four definitions: Grammatical syllepsis (sometimes...

stairs and then a new set of curtains" is a variety of zeugma called a syllepsis. Run up can refer either to a quick ascent or to manufacture. The effect...

zeugma in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Zeugma may refer to: Zeugma and syllepsis, figures of speech Zeugma (Commagene), an ancient settlement in Commagene...

linguistic tool that can bring an additional layer of nuance to wordplay. Syllepsis, or heteronymy, is a form of punning where a single word simultaneously...

also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a form of syllepsis or antanaclasis (a type of pun). For example, in response to the question...

Matthew, for the sake of concision, employed a figure of speech called syllepsis whereby the plural was used to indicate the singular. Later commentators...

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The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase is a non-fiction book by Mark Forsyth published in 2013. The book explains classical...

mind, with complex word-play, including three oft-quoted examples of syllepsis. "Holimakittiloukachichichi"—another (short) song of implied seduction...

something else Oxymoron: a combination of two contradictory terms Zeugma and Syllepsis: the use of a single phrase in two ways simultaneously Pun: deliberately...

prolepsis, proleptic, proslepsis, syllabic, syllabism, syllable, syllabogram, syllepsis, trisyllabic, trisyllable lab-, laps- slide, slip Latin labi, lapsus collapse...

Denver, Colorado Sandra Owen† Canton Repository Canton, Ohio 31st 1958 syllepsis Jolitta Schlehuber Topeka Daily Capital Topeka, Kansas 32nd 1959 catamaran...

elements; pleonasm, the occurrence of syntactically superfluous elements; syllepsis, the violation of a rule of agreement; hyperbaton, the violation of normal...

calliope, farrago e /ɛ, ᵻ/ ellipsis, Ecclesiastes, erratum i /ɪ, ᵻ/ Illyria, cf. cirrhosis y syllepsis o /ə/ collector, oppressor, opprobrium, possessor...

broadcast on FM radio stations, on June 22, 1980. The album's title is a syllepsis, referring figuratively to the band's then-current album, Go to Heaven...

for his book Semiotics of Poetry, and his conceptions of hypogram and syllepsis. Kvas observes three phases in Riffaterre's work: stylistic, semiotic...

well-known also by classic grammar and was dubbed "constructio ad sensum" or "syllepsis". Enger states that pancake sentences are "where the predicative adjective...

sponsored by the Topeka Daily Capital. She correctly spelled the word syllepsis. She was placed fourth the prior year, and was the first winner from Kansas...

hyperzeuxis,[clarification needed] which may also be a form of zeugma or syllepsis. Glossary of rhetorical terms Matthew of Vendôme (1980). The art of versification...

prolepsis, proleptic, proslepsis, syllabic, syllabism, syllable, syllabogram, syllepsis, trisyllabic, trisyllable lab-, laps- slide, slip Latin labi, lapsus collapse...

grammarians, such as Hephaestion, defined synizesis broadly as the “σύλληψις” (syllepsis, “a taking together (of sounds)”) of any two syllables. More contemporary...

13-year-old, Tanya Solomon of Kansas City, Missouri, took third, missing "syllepsis". 168 spellers competed in the Bee, 17 more than competed the previous...