Glossary of Literary Terms

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zeugma: The use of one word (usually a verb) to "yoke" two or more words to which it applies in different senses (e.g., see Alexander Pope´s Belinda, who may "stain her Honour, or her new Brocade"; The Rape of the Lock 2.107 [1714]).