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- zeugma
- use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one; "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma"
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- adornment,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- beauties,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- colors,
- colors of rhetoric,
- conversion,
- ecphonesis,
- elegant variation,
- embellishment,
- embroidery,
- emphasis,
- exclamation,
- figure,
- fine writing,
- floridity,
- floridness,
- flourish,
- floweriness,
- flowers of speech,
- frill,
- gemination,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- inversion,
- irony,
- litotes,
- lushness,
- luxuriance,
- malapropism,
- meiosis,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- onomatopoeia,
- ornament,
- ornamentation,
- oxymoron,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- purple patches,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- zeugma
- malapropism
collapse - the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar related words >
- Irish bull,
- abuse of terms,
- acrostic,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- amphibologism,
- amphiboly,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- anagram,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- barbarism,
- bull,
- calembour,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- conversion,
- corruption,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equivocality,
- equivoque,
- exclamation,
- fluff,
- folk etymology,
- gemination,
- grammatical error,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- hypercorrection,
- hyperform,
- infelicity,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jeu de mots,
- litotes,
- logogram,
- logogriph,
- malaprop,
- marrowsky,
- meiosis,
- metagram,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- misconstruction,
- mispronunciation,
- missaying,
- misusage,
- onomatopoeia,
- oxymoron,
- palindrome,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- paronomasia,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- play on words,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- pun,
- punning,
- regression,
- repetition,
- sarcasm,
- simile,
- similitude,
- solecism,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- ungrammaticism,
- wordplay,
- zeugma
- simile
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- a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') related words >
- accordance,
- affinity,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- exclamation,
- gemination,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- regression,
- relation,
- repetition,
- resemblance,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- semblance,
- similarity,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- trope of comparison,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- metaphor
collapse
- a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity related words >
- accordance,
- agent,
- agreement,
- alikeness,
- allegory,
- alliance,
- alliteration,
- allusion,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogue,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- aping,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- approach,
- approximation,
- assimilation,
- backup,
- balancing,
- catachresis,
- change,
- changeling,
- chiasmus,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- closeness,
- community,
- comparability,
- comparative anatomy,
- comparative degree,
- comparative grammar,
- comparative judgment,
- comparative linguistics,
- comparative literature,
- comparative method,
- compare,
- comparing,
- comparison,
- conformity,
- confrontation,
- confrontment,
- contrast,
- contrastiveness,
- conversion,
- copy,
- copying,
- correlation,
- correspondence,
- counterfeit,
- deputy,
- distinction,
- distinctiveness,
- double,
- dummy,
- ecphonesis,
- emphasis,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- fake,
- figure of speech,
- fill-in,
- gemination,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- identity,
- image,
- imagery,
- imitation,
- inversion,
- irony,
- likeness,
- likening,
- litotes,
- locum tenens,
- makeshift,
- malapropism,
- matching,
- meiosis,
- metonymy,
- mimicking,
- nearness,
- next best thing,
- onomatopoeia,
- opposing,
- opposition,
- oxymoron,
- parallelism,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parity,
- periphrasis,
- personification,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch hitter,
- pleonasm,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- proportion,
- proxy,
- reference,
- regression,
- relation,
- relief,
- repetition,
- replacement,
- representative,
- resemblance,
- reserves,
- ringer,
- sameness,
- sarcasm,
- second string,
- secondary,
- semblance,
- sign,
- similarity,
- simile,
- similitude,
- simulation,
- spares,
- spoonerism,
- stand-in,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surrogate,
- syllepsis,
- symbol,
- symbolism,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- third string,
- token,
- trope,
- trope of comparison,
- understudy,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- weighing,
- zeugma
- speech
collapse
- (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"
- the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"
- something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches" related words >
- ESP,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- alliteration,
- allocution,
- allusion,
- anacoluthon,
- anadiplosis,
- analogy,
- anaphora,
- anastrophe,
- answer,
- answering,
- antiphrasis,
- antithesis,
- antonomasia,
- apophasis,
- aporia,
- aposiopesis,
- apostrophe,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- blast,
- bull session,
- catachresis,
- chalk talk,
- chiasmus,
- chinfest,
- choice of words,
- circumlocution,
- climax,
- commerce,
- communicating,
- communication,
- communicational,
- communion,
- communional,
- composition,
- confab,
- confabulation,
- congress,
- connection,
- contact,
- conversation,
- conversational,
- converse,
- conversion,
- correspondence,
- dealing,
- dealings,
- debate,
- declamation,
- dialect,
- dialogue,
- diatribe,
- diction,
- discourse,
- disquisition,
- duologue,
- ecphonesis,
- elocution,
- emphasis,
- enunciated,
- enunciation,
- eulogy,
- exchange,
- exclamation,
- exhortation,
- expression,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- formulation,
- funeral oration,
- gemination,
- grammar,
- harangue,
- homily,
- hortatory address,
- hypallage,
- hyperbaton,
- hyperbole,
- idiom,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- information,
- interacting,
- interaction,
- interactional,
- interactive,
- interchange,
- intercommunication,
- intercommunicational,
- intercommunicative,
- intercommunion,
- intercommunional,
- intercourse,
- interplay,
- interresponsive,
- interrogative,
- interrogatory,
- invective,
- inversion,
- irony,
- jargon,
- jeremiad,
- language,
- langue,
- lecture,
- line,
- lingo,
- lingua,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- linguistic intercourse,
- litotes,
- locution,
- malapropism,
- meiosis,
- message,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- nuncupative,
- onomatopoeia,
- oral,
- oral communication,
- oration,
- oxymoron,
- palaver,
- paregmenon,
- parenthesis,
- parlance,
- parley,
- parol,
- parole,
- pep talk,
- periphrasis,
- peroration,
- personal usage,
- personification,
- philippic,
- phrase,
- phraseology,
- phrasing,
- pitch,
- pleonasm,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- preterition,
- prolepsis,
- pronounced,
- public speech,
- question-and-answer session,
- questioning,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- regression,
- repetition,
- reply,
- response,
- responsive,
- rhetoric,
- said,
- sales pitch,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- sarcasm,
- say,
- screed,
- sermon,
- set speech,
- simile,
- similitude,
- social intercourse,
- song and dance,
- sounded,
- speaking,
- speech circuit,
- speech situation,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- spiel,
- spoken,
- spoonerism,
- syllepsis,
- symploce,
- synecdoche,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- talkfest,
- talking,
- telepathic,
- telepathy,
- tirade,
- tongue,
- touch,
- traffic,
- transmissional,
- trialogue,
- truck,
- two-way communication,
- unwritten,
- usage,
- use of words,
- usus loquendi,
- utterance,
- uttered,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- verbal,
- verbalization,
- verbiage,
- vernacular,
- viva voce,
- vocal,
- vocalization,
- vocalized,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiceful,
- voicing,
- wordage,
- wording,
- words,
- zeugma
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