hyperzeugma
hyperzeugma noun: a rhetorical figure in which each phrase or clause has its own verb. The opposite of zeugma.
Noun
hyperzeugma (uncountable)
- A 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 86
- ...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
Forms of hyperzeugma
| alternative form | hyperzeugmenon |
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Origin of hyperzeugma
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér) + ζεῦγμα (zeûgma, “yoke, bond”)
Questions about hyperzeugma
- What does hyperzeugma mean?
- Hyperzeugma means a rhetorical figure in which each phrase or clause has its own verb. The opposite of zeugma.
- What part of speech is hyperzeugma?
- Hyperzeugma is a noun.
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