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.
      • RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.