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Can you give examples of zeugma?

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When was Zeugma Systems created?

Zeugma Systems was created in 2004.


When was Zeugma Mosaic Museum created?

Zeugma Mosaic Museum was created in 2011.


How is the word zeugma pronounced?

zoog-muh


What is a zeugma?

A zeugma is the act of using a word, particularly an adjective or verb, to apply to more than one noun when its sense is appropriate to only one.


More examples of technical literature?

technical literature example


Where was the ancient city of Zeugma located?

Western Turkey.


What rhymes with zeugma?

Prozeugma, Mesozeugma, Hypozeugma, Diazeugma.


Use of a word to govern two or more words?

zeugma


Why were archeologists unaware of Zeugma's whereabouts before 1987?

The ancient city of Zeugma was buried beneath the pistachio groves of the modern city by the same name for nearly two thousand years


What are examples of antislavery literature?

Uncle Tom's Schooldays, Spartacus, and John Brown's Cabin are examples of antislavery literature. Another book is The Underground Railroad.


What is an example of the use of zeugma in a literary work?

A zeugma is the same as a syllepsis. It is the use of grammatically inconsistent (ok wrong) phrases in the same sentence such as "She was upstairs and her children upstairs". A consistent usage would be she and she or her and her.