syllepsis

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use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc

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This type of branching is referred to as sylleptic branching and may significantly enhance early tree growth.
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Any branch system arising from a sylleptic bud is a subunit.
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"The Ethical Tempo of Narrative Syntax: Sylleptic Recognitions in Our Mutual Friend!' Partial Answers 8/1 (2010): 119-45.
Hypallage and the literalization of metaphors in a Dickens text
The intertext to which Trellis's sylleptic pun indicates can be found in Finnegans wake in a fragment in which fiction is also defined in terms of female garment and which also f unctions as a subtext.
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Board 03 CONTROL MECHANISMS OF SYLLEPTIC BRANCHING IN POPULUS.
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The "bare ground" is yet another in a series of sylleptic puns: it is literally the winter earth, but also the absolute foundation, the basis underlying everything.
"Terrible simplicity": Emerson's metaleptic style
"Sylleptic Symbols: Rimbaud's Memoire.'" Nineteenth-Century French Poetry: Introductions to Close Reading.
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