{"id":16578,"date":"2018-03-11T08:37:48","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T15:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=16578"},"modified":"2018-02-25T23:48:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:48:35","slug":"paraprosdokian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/03\/11\/paraprosdokian\/","title":{"rendered":"paraprosdokian"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Wikipedia says<\/p>\r\n

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A paraprosdokian<\/a> [\u2026] is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence, phrase, or larger discourse is surprising or unexpected in a way that causes the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. [\u2026] Some paraprosdokians not only change the meaning of an early phrase, but they also play on the double meaning of a particular word, creating a form of syllepsis.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

(For more on syllepsis and zeugma, see column z<\/a>.)<\/p>\r\n

That article gives examples like \u201cTake my wife \u2026 please!\u201d Other examples welcome, whether invented by you or quoted from others.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words","category-rhetoric"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17197,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16578\/revisions\/17197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}