The ancient site of Belkıs/Zeugma was once an important city of the Commagene Kingdom. It is situated about 50 km from the modern city of Gaziantep, on the banks of the Euphrates. Its name derives from the bridge of boats that in ancient times connected the river banks in this place, forming one of the three major river crossings of the region. Favourite Team(s): Swansea, Gaziantepspor and the Zeugma. The upload photos function in Brave seems to be working fine in Mac OS. No blocking issues as yet. It wasn't good policy that saved ancient Zeugma. It was a good story. In 2000, the construction of the massive Birecik Dam on the Euphrates River, less than a mile from the site, began to flood.
In rhetoric, zeugma (/ˈzjuːɡmə/(listen); from the Ancient Greekζεῦγμα, zeûgma, lit. 'a yoking together'[1]) and syllepsis (/sɪˈlɛpsɪs/; from the Ancient Greek σύλληψις, sullēpsis, lit. 'a taking together'[2]) are figures of speech in which a single phrase or word joins different parts of a sentence.[3]
Definition[edit]
In current usage, there are multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions for zeugma and syllepsis. This article categorizes these two figures of speech into four types, based on four definitions:
Type 1[edit]
Grammatical syllepsis (sometimes also called zeugma): where a single word is used in relation to two other parts of a sentence although the word grammatically or logically applies to only one.[2][4]
By definition, grammatical syllepsis will often be grammatically 'incorrect' according to traditional grammatical rules. However, such solecisms are sometimes not errors but intentional constructions in which the rules of grammar are bent by necessity or for stylistic effect.
- 'He works his work, I mine' (Tennyson, 'Ulysses').[4]
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It is ungrammatical from a grammarian's viewpoint, because 'works' does not grammatically agree with 'I': the sentence 'I works mine' would be ungrammatical. On the other hand, Tennyson's two sentences could be taken to deploy a different figure of speech, namely 'ellipsis'. The sentence would be taken to mean,
- 'He works his work, [and] I [work] mine.'
Read in this way, the conjunction is not ungrammatical.
Sometimes the 'error' is logical, rather than grammatical:
- 'When the people saw the thunder and lightning and heard the trumpet and saw the mountain in smoke, they trembled with fear. (Exodus 20:18a)'[4]
Logically, they 'saw' only the lightning. Nothing simulator (andy clark) mac os.
Type 2[edit]
Zeugma (often also called syllepsis, or semantic syllepsis): a single word is used with two other parts of a sentence but must be understood differently in relation to each.[5][6][7][8] Example: 'He took his hat and his leave.' The type of figure is grammatically correct but creates its effect by seeming, at first hearing, to be incorrect by its exploiting multiple shades of meaning in a single word or phrase.
- 'Here Thou, great Anna! whom three Realms obey,
Dost sometimes Counsel take – and sometimes Tea.' (Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto III)[9][10] - 'Miss Bolo [..] went straight home, in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair.' (Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, Chapter 35)[9]
- 'She lowered her standards by raising her glass / Her courage, her eyes and his hopes..'When he asked 'What in heaven?' she made no reply, up her mind, and a dash for the door.' (Flanders and Swann, 'Have Some Madeira M'Dear')[4][11]
- 'They covered themselves with dust and glory.' (Mark Twain).[4]
- 'He watches afternoon repeats and the food he eats.' (Blur, 'Country House')
- 'You held your breath and the door for me.' (Alanis Morissette, 'Head Over Feet')
- 'I took the podium and my second trophy of the evening.' (Samuel R. Delany, 'Racism and Science Fiction')[12]
- 'Quand les Français à tête folle / S'en allèrent dans l'Italie, / Ils gagnèrent à l'étourdie / Et Gênes et Naples et la Vérole.' ['On their flippant way through Italy, the French carelessly picked up Genoa, Naples and syphilis.'] (François Voltaire)[13][14]
When the meaning of a verb varies for the nouns following it, there is a standard order for the nouns: the noun first takes the most prototypical or literal meaning of the verb and is followed by the noun or nouns taking the less prototypical or more figurative verb meanings.[15]
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- 'The boy swallowed milk and kisses,' as contrasted with 'The boy swallowed kisses and milk'.[15]
The opposite process, in which the first noun expresses a figurative meaning and the second a more literal meaning, tends to create a comic effect: 'and she feeds me love and tenderness and macaroons.' (The Stampeders, 'Sweet City Woman')
Type 3[edit]
Dont push the button (backsauce) mac os. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms offers a much broader definition for zeugma by defining it as any case of parallelism and ellipsis working together so that a single word governs two or more other parts of a sentence.[16]
- Vicit pudorem libido timorem audacia rationem amentia. (Cicero, Pro Cluentio, VI.15)
- 'Lust conquered shame; audacity, fear; madness, reason.'
The more usual way of phrasing this would be 'Lust conquered shame, audacity conquered fear, and madness conquered reason.' The sentence consists of three parallel clauses, called parallel because each has the same word order: object, verb, subject in the original Latin; subject, verb, object in the English translation. The verb 'conquered' is a common element in each clause. The zeugma is created in both the original and the translation by removing the second and third instances of 'conquered'. Removing words that still can be understood by the context of the remaining words is ellipsis.
- Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Francis Bacon[17]).
The more usual way of phrasing this would be 'Histories make men wise, poets make them witty, the mathematics make them subtle, natural philosophy makes them deep, moral [philosophy] makes them grave, and logic and rhetoric make them able to contend.'
Goonisher! mac os. Zeugmas are defined in this sense in Samuel Johnson's 18th-century A Dictionary of the English Language.[18]
Type 4[edit]
A special case of semantic syllepsis occurs when a word or phrase is used both in its figurative and literal sense at the same time.[3] Then, it is not necessary for the governing phrase to relate to two other parts of the sentence. One example, from the song 'What's My Name?', is: 'Okay, there we go / Only thing we have on is the radio.' Another example is in an advertisement for a transport company: 'We go a long way for you.' This type of syllepsis operates in a similar manner to a homonymic pun.
Other types and related figures[edit]
There are several other definitions of zeugma that encompass other ways in which one word in a sentence can relate to two or more others. Even a simple construction like 'this is easy and comprehensible' has been called[3] a 'zeugma without complication' because 'is' governs both 'easy' and 'comprehensible'.
Specialized figures have been defined to distinguish zeugmas with particular characteristics such as the following figures, which relate to the specific type and location of the governing word:
Diazeugma[edit]
A diazeugma[19]is a zeugma whose only subject governs multiple verbs. A diazeugma whose only subject begins the sentence and controls a series of verbs is a 'disjunction' (disiunctio) in the Rhetorica ad Herennium.[20]
- Populus Romanus Numantiam delevit Kartaginem sustulit Corinthum disiecit Fregellas evertit. (Anon. Rhetorica ad Herennium. IV. xxvii.[20])
- The Roman people destroyedNumantia, razedCarthage, demolishedCorinth, and overthrewFregellae.
- 'We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.' (Inaugural address of John F. Kennedy)
Hypozeugma[edit]
Hypozeugma[21]or 'adjunctions' (adiunctio)[22] is used in a construction containing several phrases and occurs when the word or words on which all of the phrases depend are placed at the end.
- Assure yourself that Damon to his Pythias, Pylades to his Orestes, Titus to his Gysippus, Theseus to his Pyrothus, Scipio to his Laelius, was never found more faithful than Euphues will be to his Philautus. (John Lyly, Euphues)[23]
Prozeugma[edit]
A prozeugma,[24]synezeugmenon, or praeiunctio is a zeugma whose governing word occurs in the first clause of the sentence.[23]
- Vicit pudorem libido timorem audacia rationem amentia. (Cicero, Pro Cluentio, VI.15)
- 'Lust conquered shame; audacity, fear; madness, reason.'
- Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. (Francis Bacon[17]).
Mesozeugma[edit]
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A mesozeugma[25]is a zeugma whose governing word occurs in the middle of the sentence and governs clauses on either side. A mesozeugma whose common term is a verb is called 'conjunction' (coniunctio) in the Roman Rhetorica ad Herennium.[20]
- 'What a shame is this, that neither hope of reward, nor feare of reproch could any thing move him, neither the persuasion of his friends, nor the love of his country. [sic]' (Henry Peacham)
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References[edit]
- ^Liddell, H. G. & al. A Greek-English Lexicon. 'ζεῦγμα'. Perseus Project. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ abRandom House Dictionary. 'Syllepsis'. 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ abcBernard Marie Dupriez (1991). A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z. University of Toronto Press. p. 440. ISBN978-0-8020-6803-3. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ^ abcde'Zeugma'. Literary Devices. 16 September 2013. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
- ^Random House Dictionary. 'Zeugma'. 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^Oxford Dictionaries Online. 'Zeugma'. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^WordNet. 'Zeugma'. Princeton University Press. Retrieved 23 January 2013.
- ^Knapp, James F. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. 'Glossary of Literary Terms'. W. W. Norton & Co., 2005. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^ abBaldwick, Chris. 2008. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. 'Syllepsis' Oxford University Press. New York. p. 325.
- ^Corbett, Edward P.J. and Conners, Robert J. 1999. Style and Statement. Oxford University Press. New York. Oxford. pp. 63-64.
- ^Burton, Neel (2019). 'Chapter 6: Rhetoric'. Hypersanity: Thinking Beyond Thinking. Acheron. ISBN9781913260002.
- ^Delany, Samuel R. (August 1998). 'Racism and Science Fiction'. New York Review of Science Fiction (120). Retrieved 2 July 2020.
- ^Feltgen (11 December 2002). 'Histoire de la lutte contre les maladies vénériennes à Rouen'(PDF). Groupe Histoire des Hôpitaux de Rouen. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ^Frith, John (November 2012). 'Syphilis: Its Early History and Treatment Until Penicillin, and the Debate on its Origins'(PDF). Journal of Military and Veterans' Health. 20 (4): 49–56.
- ^ abShen, Yeshayahu (March 1998). 'Zeugma: Prototypes, Categories, And Metaphors'. Metaphor and Symbol. 13 (1): 31–47. doi:10.1207/s15327868ms1301_3.
- ^Baldick, Chris. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. 'Zeugma'. 2004.
- ^ abBacon, Francis (1601). 'Of Studies'.
- ^Johnson, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language.'Zeugma'. 1755. Retrieved 24 January 2013.
- ^'diazeugma'. Silva Rhetoricae. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^ abcRhetorica ad Herennium. IV. xxvii. Retrieved 24 January 2013. via Internet Archive
- ^'hypozeugma'. Silva Rhetoricae. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^Rhetorica ad Herennium
- ^ abRiccio, Ottone M. (1980). The intimate art of writing poetry. Prentice-Hall. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
prozeugma figure of speech.
- ^'prozeugma'. Silva Rhetoricae. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
- ^'mesozeugma'. Silva Rhetoricae. Retrieved 13 June 2016.
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External links[edit]
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- Perseus Project with links to original sources on rhetoric
- Zeugma Explained