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03:33, 30 марта 2012

pun and zeugma

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect.

examples:

A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

Zeugma- A rhetorical term for the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words although
its use may be grammatically or logically correct with only one.

You are free to execute your laws, and your citizens, as you see fit."
"He carried a strobe light and the responsibility for the lives of his men."
"[H]e was alternately cudgelling his brains and his donkey when, passing
workhouse, his eyes encountered the bill on the gate."
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