Zeugma and Repetition

Ryan RamlalPerry Chen

Zeugma

• A Z Zeugma 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. The Zeugma is categorized according to the location and part of speech of the governing word. (source: wikipedia.org)

Examples of Zeugma

• Now z Zeugma s are far more common and familiar to you despite the odd word. Some examples of this would be:

• On his recent fishing expedition, he caught ten trout and a cold.• Others from more classic literature and older times would be would

be:• "If we don't hang together, we shall hang separately!" (Ben

Franklin). • "She looked at the object with suspicion and a magnifying glass."

(Charles Dickens)

• ". . . losing her heart or her necklace at the ball." (Alexander Pope)

Conclusion

• Now Zeugma may seem very familiar to other literary elements known as ellipses and parallelism, but differ from the two in that a Zeugma contains both of the two elements.

Repetition

• Repetition is just the simple Repetition of a word, within a sentence or a poetical line, with no particular

placement of the words, this is to make emphasis.

Examples of Repetition

• Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire, In a mad expostulation with the deaf and frantic fire, Leaping higher, higher, higher, With a desperate desire, And a resolute endeavor, Now - now to sit or never, By the side of the pale-faced moon. Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells

-Edgar Allan Poe

Conclusion

• Anaphora and epiphora are two types of Repetition . Repetition is used to emphasis an idea

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