SYLLEPSIS

noun (plural syllepses) Etymology: Latin, from Greek syllēpsis, from syllambanein Date: circa 1550 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, the use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense, sylleptic adjective