Syllepsis
Syllepsis u of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or ca etc. with only one.
Syllepsis
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Syllepsis, also known as mantic zeugma, is a particular type of zeugma in which the claus disagree in either meaning or grammar. The governing word may change meaning with respect to the other words it modifies. This creates a mantic incongruity that is often humorous. Alternatively, a syllepsis may contain a governing word or phra that does not agree grammatically with one or more of its distributed terms. This is an intentional construction in which rules of grammar are bent for stylistic effect.
Distributed term changes meaning
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The governing term can change meaning in its distribution, sometimes to comical effect.
林徽因经典爱情语录 "There's people on the street using guns and knives, taking drugs and each others lives." Flight of the Conchords, "Think About It"
alter cum res gestas tum etiam studium atque auris adhibere post. Cicero, Pro Archia Poeta (The other was able to lend not only his achievements, but also his support and ears.)
Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey,
Dost sometimes Counl take - and sometimes Tea. Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (Pope was speaking of Queen Anne and Kensington Palace)
He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
And he said, as he hastened to put out the cat,
The wine, his cigar and the lamps:
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"Have some Madeira, "' Michael Flanders "Have Some Madeira M'Dear"
She lowered her standards by raising her glass,
Her courage, her eyes and his hopes. Ibid. by什么意思
When he asked "What in Heaven?" she made no reply,
Up her mind, and a dash for the door Ibid.
I notice with some relief, that the Icelandic group staying on my floor have either checked or pasd out. Agent Cooper on the television ries Twin Peaks
Syllepsis can be ud with idiomatic phras to achieve a similar result:
You held your breath and the door for me. Alanis Moristte, "Head over Feet"
I got a part-time job at my father's carpet store, laying tackless stripping and houwives by the score. Warren Zevon, "Mr. Bad Example"
I took her hand and then an aspirin in the morning, Eve 6, "Girl Eyes"
"Oh, flowers are as common here, Miss Fairfax, as people are in London." Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (Cecily is making a catty remark to Miss Fairfax, a Londoner, by using "common" in two ns, namely "numerous" and "vulgar" as in the expression "common thief.")
"The Russian grandees came to Elizabeth's court dropping pearls and vermin." Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Are you getting fit or having one?" From the television program M*A*S*H
"You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you e fit." From the television program Star Trek: The Next Generation
"I called her a whore and mylf a cab." Michael Salinger, "Girl on Girl"
"She was a thief, you got to believe: she stole my heart and my cat." From the film So I Married an Axe Murderer
"Both how I'm living and my no is large." Digital Underground, "The Humpty Dance"
[edit] Syllepsis with figures and schemes of grammar
A syllepsis may employ a scheme of grammatical construction or figure of grammar to manipulate discour as part of a rhetorical strategy.
"The sky—and my hopes—is falling."
As written, the ntence employs syllepsis with the scheme of grammar, parenthesis, and the phra "The sky is falling" is retained, although two subjects would naturally require a change to the plural verb "are." The disagreement in grammar creates an intentional solecism.
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"Both loud lightning and thunder shook the temple walls."
The syllepsis employs an implied "bright" as in the ntence, "Both loud lightning and brig
ht thunder shook the temple walls." Reversing the order of the adjectives is an example of hypallage. The syllepsis also employs catachresis by attributing the effect of shaking and loudness to the lightning, a purely visual effect. U of the unconventional grammatical construction is intentional so as to create alliteration with "loud lightning."
[edit] Examples of syllepsis
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常减压装置 [She] went straight home in a flood of tears, and a dan chair. - Charles Dickens
Just a dissipated creep who wears a Rolex on his wrist/On her nerves, too much cologne, and down her power to resist.
Did she turn down the wrong hallway, his advances, or the sheet? - Bob Kanefsky, "The Girl Who Had Never Been ..."
