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What does syllepsis mean?

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  1. (rhetoric) A figure 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; often causing humorous incongruity
  2. (botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, without the formation of a bud or period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.
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The latter include specific accounts of the five figures of construction: antithesis, synthesis, prolepsis, syllepsis, and zeugma.
The upmating of the persons, called in Greek syllepsis, touches the use of the personal pronouns.
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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