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发帖数: 3184 | 2 The science and technology of joking:
Zeugma
Zeugma (from the Greek: ζεῦγμα, zeûgma, meaning "yoke") is a
figure of speech describing the joining of two or more parts of a sentence
with a single common verb or noun. A zeugma employs both ellipsis, the
omission of words which are easily understood, and parallelism, the balance
of several words or phrases. The result is a series of similar phrases
joined or yoked together by a common and implied noun or verb. A syllepsis
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