ZEUGMA-MESOZEUGMA  中間省略

中省略法 Ellipsis of a word which reoccurs before and afterwards within the same clause, sentence, or sometimes even wider context.

Hypernym
  • ZEUGMAWORD-PLAY in the form of conjoining nouns that do not semantically belong together in one and the same construction. Omission of a word which is present in the same sentence, this omission usually involving PARALLELISM.NOTE: the term is also used as a general term for HYPOZEUGMA, MESOZEUGMA, PROZEUGMA, for which see the bibliography indicated here. [Add biblio the the ZEUGMA here intended! See Lausberg CH]See also PROZEUGMA, HYPOZEUGMA, MESOZEUGMA.
    • WORD-PLAYSPEECH ACT which does not only use words but plays with their form and content.WORD-PLAY
      • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
        • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Miriam 296 "Zeugma is the use of a word, usually a verb, to serve two or more others. If the verb is expressed in the first clause and undertstood in the others, the firgure is called prozeugma

Her beautie pierst mine eye, her speach mine wofull hart:

Her presence all the powers of my discourse.

If it is expressed in the middle clause it is called mesozeugma; if in the last clause hypozeugma."

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