the use of a word in a syntactic relationship with two or more words, only one of which it formally agrees with, e.g. in ‘neither he nor I knows’
= zeugma
sylleptic /siʹleptik/ adj
[via Latin from Greek syllēpsis, from syllambanein: see syllable]
| 单词 | syllepsis |
| 释义 | syllepsis |
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