Zeugma – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zeugma (from the Greek: ζεῦγμα, zeûgma, 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. A zeugma employs both ellipsis, the omission of words which are easily understood, and parallelism, the balance of several words or phrases. The result [...]