Meanings
alternative hyperzeugmenon
- rhetoricuncountableA rhetorical figure in which each phrase or clause has its own verb. The opposite of zeugma.
Hyperzeugma (hy per ZEUG ma). Opposite of Zeugma. Each phrase has its own verb.
1991, Richard A. Lanham, (A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms), 2nd edition, Berkeley: University of California Press, page 861 more example
...how the impression of the essayist's presence to himself derives from the carefully structured and balanced phrasing, and the play of antithesis, of hyperzeugma (each phrase with its own verb), of repetition, and the suggestive richness of rhyme.
1996, Regosin, Richard L., (Montaigne's Unruly Brood: Textual Engendering and the Challenge to Paternalist Authority), Berkeley: University of California Press, page 137
Origin
- Ancient Greekὑπέρ
- Englishhyperzeugma
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér) + ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “yoke, bond”)
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