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	== Works Cited ==		== Works Cited ==
			*Fenno, Jonathan Brian. "'A Great Wave against the Stream': Water Imagery in Iliadic Battle Scenes." ''American Journal of Philology'' Vol. 126 no. 4 (Winter 2005): 481.
			*Hunter, J. Paul. "Formalism and History: Binarism and the Anglophone Couplet." MLQ: ''Modern Language Quarterly'' Vol. 61 no. 1 (March 2000): 122.
	*Ollier, Nicole. "Nanos Valaoritis: The Cultural Cross-Breeding of a Cosmopolitan and Protean Writer." ''Journal of Modern Greek Studies'' Vol. 15 no. 1 (May 1997): 46.		*Ollier, Nicole. "Nanos Valaoritis: The Cultural Cross-Breeding of a Cosmopolitan and Protean Writer." ''Journal of Modern Greek Studies'' Vol. 15 no. 1 (May 1997): 46.
	*Tynianov, IUrii Nikolaevich. "The Ode as an Oratorical Genre." ''New Literary History'' Vol. 34 no. 3 (Summer 2003): 576.		*Tynianov, IUrii Nikolaevich. "The Ode as an Oratorical Genre." ''New Literary History'' Vol. 34 no. 3 (Summer 2003): 576.
	*Hunter, J. Paul. "Formalism and History: Binarism and the Anglophone Couplet." MLQ: ''Modern Language Quarterly'' Vol. 61 no. 1 (March 2000): 122.
	*Fenno, Jonathan Brian. "'A Great Wave against the Stream': Water Imagery in Iliadic Battle Scenes." ''American Journal of Philology'' Vol. 126 no. 4 (Winter 2005): 481.

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A play on words in which a part of speech, such as a verb or adjective, is applied in multiple ways to two or more nouns. A zeugma is often used to enhance other literay devices or to emphasize a particular point. In ''The Odyssey'', Achilles uses a zeugma to "parallel between war and waves: 'cleaving his way through troublesome waves as well as battles with men'" (Fenno 481). Zeugmas are often inteded to be clever and humorous. Their usage is relatively uncommon in English literature in comparison to the [[metaphor]] or [[personification]], although some writers, such as Lewis Carroll, tend to favor their use (Ollier 46). The zeugma is similar to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllepsis Syllepsis].
== Examples ==
*"The cold corpse and shame are stinking" (Tynianov 576).
*"Dost sometimes Counsel take--and sometimes ''Tea''" (Hunter 122).
*"You held your breath and the door for me" ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeugma Zeugma - Wikipedia]).
*"...and covered themselves with dust and glory" ([http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Syllepsis Reference.com]).

== Works Cited ==
*Ollier, Nicole. "Nanos Valaoritis: The Cultural Cross-Breeding of a Cosmopolitan and Protean Writer." ''Journal of Modern Greek Studies'' Vol. 15 no. 1 (May 1997): 46.
*Tynianov, IUrii Nikolaevich. "The Ode as an Oratorical Genre." ''New Literary History'' Vol. 34 no. 3 (Summer 2003): 576.
*Hunter, J. Paul. "Formalism and History: Binarism and the Anglophone Couplet." MLQ: ''Modern Language Quarterly'' Vol. 61 no. 1 (March 2000): 122.
*Fenno, Jonathan Brian. "'A Great Wave against the Stream': Water Imagery in Iliadic Battle Scenes." ''American Journal of Philology'' Vol. 126 no. 4 (Winter 2005): 481.

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