A syllepsis of this type is similar to a homonymic pun.

Syllepsis: (Type 3) where a word or phrase is used both in its figurative and literal sense at the same time.

This is a similar concept to syllepsis.

The song contains three much-quoted instances of syllepsis, including "she made no reply, up her mind and a dash for the door."

"She would run up the stairs and then a new set of curtains" is a variety of zeugma called a syllepsis.

There are multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions for "zeugma" and "syllepsis" in current use.

Puns also bear similarities with paraprosdokian, syllepsis and eggcorns.

The winner was Jolitta Schlehuber, correctly spelling the word syllepsis.

This is also called "semantic syllepsis."

Grammatical syllepsis by definition will most often be grammatically "incorrect" according to prescriptivist rules.

The opposite of hypozeuxis is hyperzeuxis, which may also be a form of zeugma or syllepsis.

Zeugma or syllepsis?

In a syllepsis of this type, sometimes the "error" is logical, rather than grammatical, as in, "They saw lots of thunder and lightning."

He is well known in particular for his book Semiotics of Poetry, and the concepts of hypogram and syllepsis.

Syllepsis: (Type 2) where a single word is used in relation to two other parts of a sentence although the word grammatically or logically applies to only one.

Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but they also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a form of syllepsis.

The result is a 29-page monograph dense with erudite commentary and references, ranging from a discussion of such literary stunts as homonymic tropes and syllepsis to a hidden command, "Drink!

"Have Some Madeira M'Dear"-an old roué sings to an ingénue about the merits of that wine, hinting that he has seduction in mind, with complex word-play, including three oft-quoted examples of syllepsis.

He is captured at Zeugma and also put to death.

"In particular she amazed him with her knowledge of the zeugma."

There's no crisis forcing people to dump their systems and buy Zeugma.

But since this demands a different sense from the one appropriate to its first occurrence, the result is zeugma.

A dam project there is threatening the important archaeological site of Zeugma.

A general term cannot give rise to zeugma in this way:

Some believed that Zeugma's innovative idea, although technologically very sound, was just ahead of its time.

News accounts of the flooding of Zeugma have appeared in many countries.

There was considerable debate among the experts in telecom space as to why Zeugma failed.

And the result is a zeugma - parallelism plus ellipsis.

The legions were covered with shame and removed from the war theatre to Zeugma.

It was named for the bridge of boats, or zeugma, which crossed the Euphrates there.

Zeugma: (Type 1) where a single word is used with two other parts of a sentence but must be understood differently in relation to each.

A zeugma is a figure of speech.

How much of Zeugma's exquisitely preserved past will be lost in the deluge is unclear.

The next ford, he was informed, lay at Zeugma, across the border in Syria.

The zeugma is categorized according to the location and part of speech of the governing word.

The Roman city of Zeugma is now drowned in the reservoir behind the dam.

This is a similar concept to zeugma.

Zeugma became considerably rich, owing to the liveliness created by Legion formation.

Zeugma expected carriers to buy throttling gear because video traffic would otherwise overwhelm the network.

On September 2010, it was announced that Zeugma Systems had closed down and all of its staff were dismissed.

Donatus also includes schemes such as zeugma and anaphora.

"She would run up the stairs and then a new set of curtains" is a variety of zeugma called a syllepsis.

In case you do not know, it takes a great bend westward below Zeugma, which would admittedly have added many, many miles to the march.