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zeugma: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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zeugma1 CONSTRUCTZeugmaQUINTILIAN · ONE YOKE

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Rhetoric

One word yoked to two others at once

In rhetoric, zeugma is the figure in which a single word, usually a verb or an adjective, governs or applies to two or more others in a way that is grammatically economical and often pointed, as in "she broke his car and his heart." Quintilian's The Orator's Education treats this yoking among the figures, and Lanham's A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms catalogues its varieties and its close relative syllepsis. The referent, named from the Greek for a yoke, is the controlled sharing of one governing word across multiple elements, frequently for wit when the two meanings pull apart.[1][2]

Unit
A single governing word shared across two or more grammatical elements
Recovery means
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Measured by
Identified where one verb or modifier is made to govern two or more phrases at once

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References

  1. Quintilian. (2001). The orator's education, Volume IV: Books 9–10 (D. A. Russell, Ed. & Trans.; Loeb Classical Library No. 127). Harvard University Press. (Original work published ca. 95 CE) ISBN 9780674995949
  2. Lanham, R. A. (1991). A handlist of rhetorical terms (2nd ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 9780520076693

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