zeugma [ zewg-mă ]
A *figure of speech by which one word refers to two others in the same sentence. 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:... ...
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