Zeugma is just where one word governs two or more parts of the sentence, a very simple eg being "I like eating lunch and picking flowers" where "like" governs both activities. Or "We climbed Great Gable and descended Kirk Fell", where "we" governs both verb clauses.
So it's only really interesting when people do clever things with it – syllepsis is the clever thing where the governing word is used in two different meanings re the two parts that it works with.
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Date: 2012-05-24 01:30 pm (UTC)So it's only really interesting when people do clever things with it – syllepsis is the clever thing where the governing word is used in two different meanings re the two parts that it works with.