syllepses in English
noun
1
a figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others in different senses (e.g., caught the train and a bad cold ) or to two others of which it grammatically suits only one (e.g., neither they nor it is working ).
Probably the most common type, however, is syllepsis , where a word is understood differently in relation to two or more other words which it modifies or governs.
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