0 a use of language in which a word that has more than one meaning is used with one meaning in one part of a sentence and with a different meaning in another part of the sentence, usually in order to produce a humorous effect:
Instead, he considers explaining their oddity by a semantic incongruity akin to zeugma or syllepsis.
Some terms covered: abbreviation, burlesque, determiner, chapbook, documentary, epic, hexameter, kabuki, lacuna, paragram, proscenium, simile, tragic flaw, whodunit, zeugma.
The zeugma is created by removing the second and third instances of conquered.
Even a simple construction such as this is easy and comprehensible has been called a zeugma without complication, because is governs both easy and comprehensible.
