syllepsis

Figure of speech in which one word acts in a sentence with two or more others; it applies properly to each of the other words, but the sense differs in each case. An example taken from Dickens is ‘Miss Bolo went home in a flood of tears and a sedan chair’. Syllepsis differs from zeugma, with which it is often identified, by being grammatically correct. In zeugma the single word actually fails to make sense with one of the two to which it is applied.