syllepsis - Word of the Day - Sat Feb 5, 2022
Quotesyllepsis - (noun) - the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in a sense.
QuoteWe touched upon a specific form of syllepsis in a previous Word of the Day when we had zeugma. In research, an example of a syllepsis from the song Be Prepared by Tim Rice in Disney's Lion King, "My teeth and ambitions are bared".
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