Syllepsis

//__Syllepsis __//

-"A kind o f ellipsis in which one word (usually a verb ) is understood differently in relation to two or more other words, which it modifies or governs. Adjective: //sylleptic//."* - Also, In grammar or rhetoric, the use of a single sentence construction in which a verb, adjective, etc is made to cover to syntactical functions IE: the verb //have// in: she an they //have// promised to come.
 * Definition:: **



from L.L. syllepsis, from Gk. syn “together” (see [|syn-] ) + lepsis “a taking,” related to lambanein.
 * Origin:: **


 * See also:: **
 * [zeugma] [ellipsis]**

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 * Examples ** from text:

1) “Shelby, come see.” Shelby woke up, bleary, and __blinked against__ the windowpane. “Trees,” he said. - "Roosts", **Zach Brockhouse**

2) "The young woman's brothers searched the outhouses and the haystacks but never found any remains

so the sensible girl __dried her eyes__ and found herself another husband not too shy to piss into a pot who

spent the nights indoors." - **"The Werewolf"**, Angela Carter //The Bloody Chamber (1979)//

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