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).
One such interesting thing that adds a flavor to English literature is a zeugma. Let's find out with some examples, what it is and how it spices up your sentences! Advertisement. Zeugma is a figure of speech, mainly a verb or an adjective, that applies for two or more nouns in a single sentence.