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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Cierra

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7 September, 03:23

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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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.