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  • 11-06-2016
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What figure of speech is the following: "We lived on a combination if irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food"?

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  • 11-06-2016
The figure of speech is a zeugma. A zeugma is where a word (usually a verb) that applies to multiple parts of a sentence. In this case, lived applies to four different nouns in the sentence. 
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