200106334L June 6, 2001 ************** ************** ************** Dear **************: Thank you for your letter concerning Texas taxes. You state that your company is a national service provider for the food and beverage, restaurant, and convenience store equipment industry.
zeugma. n. 1. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a figure of speech in which a word is used to modify or govern two or more words although appropriate to only one of them or making a different sense with each, as in the sentence Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave (Charles Dickens).
Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma. figure of speech, trope, image, figure-language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. syllepsis-use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one.