Mesozeugma (me’-so-zyoog’-ma): A zeugma in which one places a common verb for many subjects in the middle of a construction.
Neither rising tides nor shrinking icecaps could convince him; neither porpoises in his living room nor sweating penguins.
The last time I saw him he was watching the Fox News Channel, sunburned in his underwear, on the deck of NOAA’s Ark.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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