“our teeth and ambitions are bared” is a zeugma
and it’s a zeugma where one of the words is literal and one is metaphorical which is the BEST KIND
I didn’t know about zeugmas until just now! That is so awesome, everybody:
zeug·maˈzo͞oɡmə/
noun
a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g.,John and his license expired last week ) or to two others of which it semantically suits only one (e.g., with weeping eyes and hearts ).
ISN’T THAT AWESOME??
#in english class in high school my teacher had us write our own zeugmas in class#and one guy came up with ‘he fell from her favor… and the window’#i am forever looking for opportunities to use that one
She dropped her dress and inhibitions at the door.
What’s this? My favorite rhetorical device showing up on my dashboard?
IT HAS A NAMEEEE!! OH MY GOD!!!
I LOVE THIIIIIS!!!
One I’ve loved was “on their weekend trip they caught three fish and a cold”
I love these they’re like a pun and a metaphor wrapped up into one neat phrase
@jwlzrulezz rhetorical device of the day
She stole my heart and my cat. 😀
OH.
crime pulp is full of zeugma and it’s the greatest. “she was the kind of girl who’d break your heart, or maybe your arm.”
“Two men walked into a bar. The third ducked.” is probably not a proper zeugma but the joke leads you to assign one definition of “bar” to the first part before leading you to conclude that it’s the other type of bar with the context provided by the second part.
That said, my favorite proper zeugma is the Burma-Shave poem
“He saw a train / and tried to duck it / kicked first the gas / and then the bucket.”
Omg I love this! I need to put more of these in my writing.
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