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(Edward Corbett offers this distinction between zeugma and syllepsis: in zeugma, unlike syllepsis, the single word does not fit grammatically or idiomatically with one member of the pair. Thus, in Corbett's view, the first example ... "Kill all the poys [boys] and luggage!"; (Fluellen in William Shakespeare's Henry V)
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"Shakespeare and the Sandman," Annual Meeting of the Popular Culture Association, March 2005 ... "The Idea of Shakespeare in Neil Gaiman and the Graphic Novel," 11th Annual Meeting of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, October 2003 ... From Zeugma...
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1 article on Zeugma: its use and abuse in English ... Webster's dictionary defines the word zeugma as a noun that is used to govern two or more words though appropriate only to one and the example it gives is: ... Poetry analysis: Sonnet 116, by William Shakespeare...
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Literally a ‘yoking’, zeugma may be achieved by a verb or preposition with two objects, as in the final line of Shakespeare's 128th sonnet:Give them thy fingers, me thy lips to kiss. Or it may employ a verb with two subjects, as in the opening of his 55th sonnet:Not marble nor the gilded monuments ;
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The Rhetorical "Beast with Two Backs": Zeugma in Shakespeare's Othello; ERIC HIRSCH; Ideology in Language and Practice; JOSEPH MEYERS; The Drama of the Market: Reading Secular Epistemology in Père Goriot; MARY GRACE ALBANESE;
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There is coverage of a wide range of topics from abbreviation to Zeugma, Shakespeare to split infinitive and there are substantial entries on key subjects such as African English, etymology, imperialism, Pidgin, poetry, psycholinguistics, sexism and slang.
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Zeugma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zeugma (from the Greek: , 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,...
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