- zeugma
- зевгмаa cluster SD, when a polysemantic verb that can be combined with nouns of most varying semantic groups is deliberately used with two of more homogeneous members, which are not connected semanticallySource: V.A.K.
He took his hat and his leave. (Ch.Dickens)
He lost his hat and his temper. (Ch.Dickens)
She went home, in a flood of tears and a sedan chair. (Ch.Dickens)
The Rich arrived in pairs and also in Rolls Royces. (Ch.Dickens)
••a) the use of a word in the same grammatical but different semantic relations to two adjacent words in the context, the semantic relations being, on the one hand, literal, and, on the other, transferredb) the realisation of two meanings with the help of a verb which is made to refer to different subjects or objects (direct or indirect)Dora, plunging at once into privileged intimacy and into the middle of the room. (B.Shaw)
... Whether the Nymph // Shall stain her Honour or her new Brocade // Or lose her Heart or necklace at a Ball (Pope - The rape of the Lock)
Source: I.R.G.••Английские авторы часто используют этот приём для создания определённого юмористического или иронического эффекта.And now must come swift action, for we have here some four thousand words and not a tear shed and never a pistol, joke safe, nor bottle cracked. (O.Henry)
Michael ... suggested to the camera that it would miss the train. It at once took a final photograph of Michael in front of the hut, two cups of tea at the manor, and its departure. (J.Galsworthy)
Шли три студента, один - в кино, другой - в сером костюме, третий - в хорошем настроении.
Source: I.V.K.See: semantically false chains, cluster SDs
English-Russian dictionary of stylistics (terminology and examples) . 2014.