ZEUGMA  同一詞省略法

WORD-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.

Hypernym
  • 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.
Hyponym
  • PROZEUGMA後省略法 Ellipsis of a word which reoccurs later within the same clause, sentence, or sometimes even wider context. This is so common that one need not go on registering it.
    • HYPOZEUGMA先省略法 Ellipsis of a word or expression which is mentioned once and understood/omitted afterwards in the same clause, sentence, or sometimes even wider context.
      • MESOZEUGMAZEUGMA in the form of the omission of an expression which is present both before and after in the same context.
        • lPROZEUGMAZEUGMA in the form of the omission of a word that comes later in the same context.
          • ZEUGMA-MESOZEUGMA中省略法 Ellipsis of a word which reoccurs before and afterwards within the same clause, sentence, or sometimes even wider context.
            EX: he was in bed with measles and his wife.

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