| Figure Name | hypozeuxis |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Isidore 1.36.4; Mosellanus; Peacham (1593); Puttenham (1589) ("hypozeuxis," "the substitute") |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | substitute |
| Etymology | Gk. hypo, "slightly" and zeugma, "yoke" |
| Type | None |
| Linguistic Domain |
Syntactic |
| Definition |
1. Opposite of zeugma. Every clause has its own verb. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. Hypozeuxis is a figure or forme of speech which joineth to everie thing a due verbe, which is the contrarie to Zeugma. (Peacham) |
| Example |
1. The Republicans filibustered, the Democrats snored, and the independents complained. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. Such is mans depressed nature and perverse inclination, that taking away the use of government, every kind of evill shal quickly oppresse every part of goodnes, ambition shal strive for honor, pride shall disdaine obedience, malice proceede to murder, theft deprive true possessors, idlenes neglect labor, impietie scorne religion, and raging tumults violate peace, and turne a happie state into a miserable confusion, whereupon it insueth that open rebellion is raised, good men murdered, virgins defloured, holy places polluted, houses burned, cities defeaced, lawes despised, the whole earth confounded, and the omnipotent power of God either little regarded or utterly forgotten. (Peacham) |
| Kind Of | Symmetry Series |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | syllepsis, ellipsis, parallelism, epizeugma, synzeugma, mesozeugma, prozeugm, diazeugma, figures of separation |
| Notes | How is this a type of zeugma? |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Ashley Rose Kelly |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | rm part of "zeugma". It is the opposite of zeugma. See definition of figure. -ark |
| Reviewed | No |