Zeugma and Repetition Ryan Ramlal Perry 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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