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"Zeugma"
Keywords:
verb
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currus
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fuit
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hic
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arma
A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, "hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;" where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma.
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a sentence containing two nouns associated with one verb, when only one noun would suffice
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Keywords:
pickwick
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hat
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took
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appropriate
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leave
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"
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Keywords:
gerund
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understand
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type
a type of gerund from what I understand
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