word of the day!
The Word of the Day for December 14 is:
syllepsis • \suh-LEP-sis\ • noun 1 : the use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case *2 : the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical
Example sentence:As an example of syllepsis, the teacher gave Dickens's "All the girls were in tears and white muslin."
posted by Manda @ 9:21 AM
5 Comments:
interesting word manda but wats the point??
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oh i can feel the love.
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