Comments on: Zeugma http://www.myfavoriteword.com/2008/01/04/zeugma/ Your Word, in Your Words Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: WILLOBIE http://www.myfavoriteword.com/2008/01/04/zeugma/comment-page-1/#comment-486 WILLOBIE Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:47:38 +0000 http://myfavoriteword.com/2008/01/04/zeugma/#comment-486 I just discovered that my favorite type of zeugma is the syllepsis, which is the joining of disparate meanings with a common verb which changes meaning. You held your breath and the door for me. I took her hand and then an aspirin in the morning. I just discovered that my favorite type of zeugma is the syllepsis, which is the joining of disparate meanings with a common verb which changes meaning.

You held your breath and the door for me.

I took her hand and then an aspirin in the morning.

]]> By: WILLOBIE http://www.myfavoriteword.com/2008/01/04/zeugma/comment-page-1/#comment-482 WILLOBIE Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:22:20 +0000 http://myfavoriteword.com/2008/01/04/zeugma/#comment-482 That would have been my favorite had you not gotten there first. I'm not sure your example is really a zeugma. The classic example is "She slipped on her kimono and a banana peel". The word "slip" goes through a startling shift in meaning between the two items being yoked. That would have been my favorite had you not gotten there first. I’m not sure your example is really a zeugma. The classic example is “She slipped on her kimono and a banana peel”. The word “slip” goes through a startling shift in meaning between the two items being yoked.

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