Zeugma (from the, zeûgma, meaning "yoke")'s a figure of speech describing the joining of two or more parts of a sentence with a single common verb or noun. A zeugma employs both ellipsis, the omission of words which are easily understood, and parallelism, the balance of several words or phrases. The result's a series of similar phrases joined or yoked together by a common and implied noun or verb. A syllepsis's a particular kind of zeugma, and there's a clear distinction between the two in… (More on Zeugma)