Macbeth, Part 3: Rhetorical Devices

Question 6 of 14 • *CR01003A English 3

What is zeugma?

Answer

the contrasting of ideas through the parallel arrangement of words

when a speaker says the opposite of what they mean

the use of a term to refer to something closely connected to it

the use of a single word to modify different terms in different senses

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