Do you use litotes in your writing? Or synecdoche? Those are just two of the rhetorical devices Roy Peter Clark discusses in this Poynter post: "Let’s take the word zeugma, for example, a move in which a single verb in a sentence creates two different senses by its attachment to two different objects ... 'Gingrich dragged out his seven point plan and his blondest wife.' Or, 'The County Commission voted to restore fluoride to the water and sanity to the public debate.'"
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