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Of the difference between zeugma and syllepsis
The Oxford Companion to the English Language offers the following account of Zeugma
16c: through Latin from Greek zeûgma yoking. (1) also syllepsis. In rhetoric, a phrase in which a word, usually a ...
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Of the difference between zeugma and syllepsis
Jane Austen wrote:
Mr and Mrs Moreland were all compliance, and Catherine all happiness.
A lot of commentary on syllepsis implies that Austen’s sentence is ungrammatical. I disagree with this ...
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