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	syllepsis
		Originally, syllepsis named that grammatical incongruity resulting when a word governing two or more others could not agree with both or all of them; for example, when a singular verb serves as the predicate to two subjects, singular and plural ("His boat and his riches is sinking").
		In the rhetorical sense, syllepsis has more to do with applying the same single word to the others it governs in distinct senses (e.g., literal and metaphorical); thus, "His boat and his dreams sank."
		Syllepsis is a form of ellipsis, and like ellipsis the sense of the word is repeated, but not the word itself.
	humanities.byu.edu /rhetoric/Figures/S/syllepsis.htm (244 words)

	Belgian Court holds that copyright subsisted in case summaries but not in case law selection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Syllepsis NV, a publishing company operates under the trade name Mys and Breesch and specialises in the publication of legal journals containing Belgian case reports and their short summaries.
		Syllepsis claimed to have issued a letter asking Wolters Kluwer to cease and desist from the practice of reproducing their case summaries in its database.
		An injunction was issued in favour of Syllepsis in respect of the summaries reproduced by Wolters Kluwer subsequent to the cease and desist action.
	www.wptn.com /back00/crt_001_nov00.html (307 words)

	Shoot Growth and Tree Architecture in a Range of Avocado Cultivars
		The relative dominance of prolepsis and syllepsis is established by the interaction between apical dominance and acrotony.
		Champagnat (1978) described acrotony as the release of daughter axes that allows them to become dominant; and apical dominance as the suppressive effect of a parent bud on the daughter bud it produces.
		A positive correlation was found in all avocado cultivars studied between apical dominance and acrotony such that strong apical dominance involved the inhibition of syllepsis, and strong acrotony involved the release of proleptic buds.
	www.avocadosource.com /WAC2/WAC2_p237.htm (1109 words)

	syllepsis - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about syllepsis
		An example taken from Dickens is ‘Miss Bolo went home in a flood of tears and a sedan chair’.
		Syllepsis differs from zeugma, with which it is often identified, by being grammatically correct.
		In zeugma the single word actually fails to make sense with one of the two to which it is applied.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /syllepsis (137 words)

	Lars Eighner's Homepage Writers' Workshop FAQ: Q. What is the difference between zeugma and syllepsis?
		In syllepsis, both expressions would be perfectly correct and unimpressive if in separate sentences: She went home in a flood of tears and She went home in a sedan chair are both perfectly normal sentences.
		She went home in a flood of tears and a sedan chair requires "a flood of tears" to be taken figuratively and "a sedan chair" to be taken literally.
		Syllepsis is appropriate to humor and satire and to any writing in a light, ironic tone.
	www.larseighner.com /workshop/faq/qa040100.html (544 words)

	Magnificent Octopus: Things grammatical
		Usually, the terms zeugma and syllepsis are considered synonymous, but you may find this article helpful.
		Although commentators have historically tried to distinguish beween zeugma and syllepsis, the distinctions have been confusing and contradictory: "even today agreement on definition in the rhetorical handbooks is virtually nil." The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 1383 (Alex Preminger & T.V.F. Brogan eds., 1993).
		We're better off using zeugma in its broadest sense and not confusing matters by introducing syllepsis, a little-known term the meaning of which even the experts can't agree on.
	magnificentoctopus.blogspot.com /2005/11/things-grammatical.html (856 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Detail: http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=1366 ============================== CFJ 1366 ============================== Syllepsis' transfer of one Vote "Sir Toby" for Speaker-Elect Pamphlet to a Vote "Sir Toby" for Speaker-Elect Pamphlet was valid.
		Syllepsis' message sets forth eir intent to transfer one or more Properties (ie, a Pamphlet), from one entity (Syllepsis), to another entity (the selfsame Pamphlet).
		Syllepsis' message satisfies the requirements for being a valid a Notice of Transfer.
	zenith.homelinux.net /cotc/format.php?cfj=1366 (316 words)

	Zeugma and syllepsis and prozeugma and mesozeugma and hypozeugma and single supplie and double supplie and middlemarcher
		Zeugma and syllepsis are exciting rhetorical devices, allowing us to express ideas concisely and powerfully (zeugma) while, at the same time, permitting and even encouraging us to look for humorous, incongruous or even zany ways in which the same term can be used (syllepsis).
		Though zeugma and syllepsis seem to be synonymous in Greek, especially as it concerns rhetorical usage, they differ in Puttenham (1589) and every subsequent English expositor.
		The rhetorical definition of syllepsis, according to Liddell, Scott is: "a figure by which a predicate belonging to one subject is attributed to several" (quoting Herodianus, de Figuris).
	www.drbilllong.com /EvenMoreWords/Zeugma.html (967 words)

	riffaterre
		The second meaning is not just different from and incompatible with the first: it is tied to the first as its polar opposite or the way the reverse of a coin is bound to its obverse - the hymen as unbroken membrane is also metaphorical in both its meanings is irrelevant to its undecidability.
		That syllepsis must be distinguished from the so-called grammatical syllepsis or the zeugma is apparent in Heinrich Lausberg's Handbuch der literarischen Rhetorik (Munich, 1960), pars.
		"Syllepsis" developed out of seminars he led at the Irvine School of Criticism and Theory and at Johns Hopkins University.
	www.uchicago.edu /research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v6/v6n4.riffaterre.html (772 words)

	Zeugma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Syllepsis is a particular type of zeugma in which the clauses are not parallel either in meaning or grammar.
		Alternatively, a syllepsis may contain a governing word or phrase which does not agree grammatically with one or more of its distributed terms.
		A syllepsis may contain a governing word which does not agree grammatically with one or more of the words or clauses to which it is distributed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syllepsis (1348 words)

	patrissimo: Word of the day
		I know that some dictionaries now give them a synonyms, but zeguma usually refers to an error, as in "he played a song and dance", rather than a word play.
		They are figures of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word.
		So it is syllepsis that refers to the example I gave, as you say.
	patrissimo.livejournal.com /442566.html (371 words)

	Word Of the Day . . . - OverTheRhine.COM -- Orchard
		As an example of syllepsis, the teacher gave Dickens's "All the girls were in tears and white muslin."
		Charles Dickens was apparently a big fan of syllepses — his "She went home in a flood of tears and a sedan chair" is another example of one.
		"Syllepsis" has another meaning, however — illustrated by such sentences as "My sisters, and particularly my youngest sister, feel strongly about the matter" — and in this sense it is something to be avoided.
	www.overtherhine.com /orchard/index.php?showtopic=3550 (362 words)

	DIFFERENT GROWTH HABITS IN APPLE AND CORRELATION BETWEEN GROWTH CHARACTERISTICS IN PROGENIES WITH A COMMON CO-GENE ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The percentage of syllepsis is correlated with the level of apical dominance.
		It has been observed that columnar trees show less syllepsis than normal trees and the ‘Telamon’ x ‘Braeburn’ family possesses the greatest percentage of sylleptic shoots which suggests the lowest apical dominance.
		The percentage of proleptic shoots is not influenced by the parents but only by the growth habit; the columnar trees have less proleptic shoots than the normal trees.
	www.actahort.org /books/538/538_56.htm (385 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000.01.26
		He finds metamorphosis connected to word-play through syllepsis: "the easy shift in syllepsis from figurative to literal can be drawn upon to make an easy shift from the conceptual to the physical in metamorphosis" (p.
		The problem in evaluating a claim like "syllepsis as a stylistic figure becomes directly connected with metamorphosis as a feature of plot" (p.
		The suggestion that Byblis, because she finds erasure to be one of the advantages of writing, is appropriately transformed into a spring, which "embraces both permanence and fluidity" (p.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2000/2000-01-26.html (2184 words)

	Take Our Word For It, page four, Sez You...
		I am somewhat confused, as according to the definition and examples I was given in that class, all the examples you gave of both terms would be syllepsis.
		What I learned was that they were very similar; the difference is that sentences with syllepsis, although they appear to have problems, actually become quite witty when you get the pun.
		Another example: "People were strumming their guitars and trumpets." The example given for syllepsis: "The wind carried off his ship and her hopes." Although the verb "carried off" means very different things for each of the nouns in the compound noun, it still works quite well with each.
	www.takeourword.com /TOW195/page4.html (1076 words)

	Filthy dirty poem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		Crowded street text singer syllepsis dirty 7 319, but well, crowded street saying it syllepsis dirty number 1684.
	filthy-dirty-poem.anders-ericsson.albanyjewishworld.org (1134 words)

	words for funny uses of words - Topic Powered by eve community
		A syllepsis is use of a single word so that it ties to two (or more) other words the sentence, but has a different meaning for each of them.
		This site says, "zeugma" is sometimes used as a synonym for "syllepsis" (the OED does) but that really a syllepsis is a specific type of zeugma.
		I would say this was a syllepsis, since he literally, physically put the cat outside and put the wine on the table, while he metaphorically put out his cigar (snuffed it out) and the lamps (turned them off).
	wordcraft.infopop.cc /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/756604565/m/991600879 (2009 words)

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		Hypozeuxis is a figure contrary to the above, where various verbs are joined to one clause, as: regem adit et regi memorat nomenque genusque (Aeneid 10.149) `He approached the king and announced to the king his name and his race.'
		Syllepsis the bringing together of different clauses by one word, as _hic illius arma, Hic currus fuit_ (Aeneid 1.15 f.) `Here was her armour, here her chariot.' This scheme is so common that it occurs not only through parts of speech, but also by their accidents (characteristics).
		It is also syllepsis when singular words are joined by a plural verb, as: sunt nobis mitia poma, castaneae molles et pressi copia lactis.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /jod/texts/donatus.6.english.html (844 words)

	Scribal Terror: June 2006
		They found that occupants of the back seat are 59 percent to 86 percent safer than passengers in the front seat and that, in the back seat, the person in the middle is 25 percent safer than other back-seat passengers.
		The BBC reports on a woman in Southhampton who was fined 60 pounds for parking in a disabled space which was not there when she parked -- it was painted around her car while she was in the beauty parlor.
		Although the rising process was faster, it was a little hit and miss due to the majority of the leavening gases being released in the bowl (at the bench stage).
	scribalterror.blogs.com /scribal_terror/2006/06/index.html (4600 words)

	syllepsis - des mots dans le vent, qui débordent du papier...
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		syllepsis : J'ai le regret de vous annoncer que, momentanément, il m'est impossible de publier de nouveaux articles.
		syllepsis : Mon pti frère il a eu son brevet mention très bien !!
	syllepsis.cowblog.fr (649 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Syllepsis (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Syllepsis (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
		Syllepsis is somewhat related to the figure zeugma, but in the latter the modifier does not logically fit one of the words it modifies.
		He leaned heavily on the lectern and stale jokes.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /topic/Syllepsis.html (208 words)

	James Brody
		Several of Brody's works are available for audition through the Collective Jukebox Project, now playing at the Mamco (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain), Geneva.
		Syllepsis was played on a concert at MAXIS, a Festival of Sound and Experimental Music, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, England, Spring 2002.
		DRD4 for flute, clarinet, contrabass and piano, based on the genetic code, was performed by Washington Musica Viva in 2003.
	www.societyofcomposers.org /user/jamesbrody.html (464 words)

	What is a syllepsis? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A syllepsis is the use of a single word in such a way that it is syntactically related to two or more words elsewhere in the sentence, but has a different meaning in relation to each of the other words.
		There is a certain type of woman who’d rather press grapes than clothes.
		This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsASyllepsis.htm (91 words)

	S
		SWINK : verb to work hard, labor, toil and moil.
		SYLLEPSIS : noun a rhetorical device in which a word yokes two constructions--each with a different meaning
		"You've `committed,´ as you put it, a zeugma--or more properly, a syllepsis."
	members.fortunecity.com /drainbead/S.html (373 words)

	syllepsis definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		"Neither Fred nor I want to" is an example of syllepsis, where "want" agrees with "I" but not "Fred."
	encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861717648/syllepsis.html (152 words)

	-yourDictionary.com - Word of the Day
		Definition: The Greek correlate of the Latinate word, "syllepsis" [si-'lep-sis], a syntactic construction in which a single word governs at least two other words or phrases even though its sense applies to them in different ways, e.g.
		Usage: Zeugma (syllepsis) usually indicates that one of the words or phrases involved is used normally while the other is in an idiom.
		(Some people argue that zeugma and syllepsis are not the same but there is no general agreement as to what the difference is.)
	www.yourdictionary.com /wotd/wotd.pl?word=zeugma (324 words)

	Syllepsis (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		You want your belt to buckle, not your chair.
	recreation.abcworld.net.cob-web.org:8888 /Syllepsis.html (222 words)

	syllepsis?
		it's still syllepsis actually, with a disagreement whether ``regulate''
		On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.
		Given that there is no longer any formal difference between the (former) two
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