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Zeugma: a figure of speech in which a word applies to two others in different senses (e.g. John and his driving license expired last week ). I was looking at this video (linked above) where a woman asked what was their favorite literary device and someone in the comments said this. Had to look it up immediately. I'm obsessed.

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what words have been inspiring and brightening up the vocab recently babe like say more ;)

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