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  • n  use of a word to govern two or more words though agreeing in number or case etc. with only one

  • Confidently, just as if she knew that the word means a vestibule or entrance, Jolitta spelled it correctly, then topped it off with syllepsis (the use of a word to modify two or .
  • The Greek apparatus of rhetoric is a brilliantly elaborate armamentarium of speechmakers' devicessynecdoche, syllepsis, symploce and so on.
  • Confidently, just as if she knew that the word means a vestibule or entrance, Jolitta spelled it correctly, then topped it off with syllepsis (the use of a word to modify two or .

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