Poetic term of the day -- April 24, 2008

SYLLEPSIS (suh-LEP-sus): a type of zeugma in which a single word, usually a verb or adjective, agrees grammatically with two or more other words, but semantically with only one, thereby effecting a shift in sense with the other, as in "colder than ice and a usurer's heart," or Pope's: "Or stain her Honour, or her new Brocade."

At left, Estelle "Grandma" Fogarty

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