What Does Sylleptic Mean?

1 : the use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case.

What is the difference between Zeugma and Syllepsis?

is that syllepsis is (rhetoric) a figure of speech in which one word simultaneously modifies two or more other words such that the modification must be understood differently with respect to each modified word; often causing humorous incongruity while zeugma is (rhetoric) the act of using a word, particularly an ...

What is Zeugma in English?

: the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words usually in such a manner that it applies to each in a different sense or makes sense with only one (as in "opened the door and her heart to the homeless boy")