{"id":736,"date":"2008-09-23T15:34:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T14:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/23\/zeugma\/"},"modified":"2008-09-23T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T14:34:19","slug":"zeugma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day &#8211; zeugma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A zeugma is a figure of speech that joins two or more clauses together in a way that allows you to omit the key verb or noun in all but one of the clauses. The word comes via Latin from the Greek <em>\u03b6\u03b5\u03cd\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1<\/em> (zeugma) &#8211; yoke.<\/p>\n<p>Here are examples of different kinds of zeugma:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prozeugma or Synezeugmenon<\/strong><br \/>\nThe verb in the first part of this zeugma governs subsequent parts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some people like cats, some dogs, some crocodiles.<\/li>\n<li>We ate octopus on Monday, camel on Tuesday and ostrich on Wednesday.<\/li>\n<li>I speak sense, you nonsense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hypozeugma<\/strong><br \/>\nIn hypozeugmas the verb appear at the end of a number of clauses. This results in a sense of suspense in listeners and readers until they reach the end of the sentence.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neither rain nor fog nor dragons will slow this knight on his quest.<\/li>\n<li>Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.  (William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Syllepsis<\/strong><br \/>\nA syllepsis joins clauses with different meanings together with a common verb, the meaning of which changes for each clauses. It can be used for comic effect due to the unusual connections and ambiguity involved.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She went home in a huff and a taxi.<\/li>\n<li>I left my heart and my wallet in San Francisco.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t forget to put out the cat and the lights before going to bed.<\/li>\n<li>He had to eat his words and his lunch.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A zeugma is a figure of speech that joins two or more clauses together in a way that allows you to omit the key verb or noun in all but one of the clauses. The word comes via Latin from the Greek \u03b6\u03b5\u03cd\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1 (zeugma) &#8211; yoke. Here are examples of different kinds of zeugma: Prozeugma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}