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what is zeugma?○ the contrasting of ideas through the parallel arrangement of words○ when a speaker says the opposite of what they mean○ the use of a term to refer to something closely connected to it○ the use of a single word to modify different terms in different senses
Zeugma is a literary figure where a single word (often a verb or adjective) applies to two or more other words in a sentence, but with a distinct, contextually appropriate meaning for each of those words. The other options describe different rhetorical devices: the first is antithesis, the second is verbal irony, and the third is metonymy.
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the use of a single word to modify different terms in different senses