[Lexicog] yoked

[William Poser]

>Last week I half heard a word that describes the grammatical construction w=
>hereby two parts of a sentance are joined by a verb or a noun.
>>For example, "She raised her eyes and his hopes."
>It is understood that both her eyes and his hopes were raised, and of cours=
>e the witty element in this example is that 'raised' is applied in a physic=
>al sense to the first part, and is a component of an idiomatic expression "=
>to raise one's hopes" in the second part.
>My question is, "Is there a word that describes this sort of linking?"
>I believe the word I half heard starts with zygo-, from the Greek, meaning =
>yoke.

I think that you are thinking of "zeugma" (Gk. ζεύγμα), which is indeed the word for "yoke". This is the classical
term for this figure of speech.

Bill



 
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