From 50 Rhetorical Devices for Rational Writing (whatever that latter idea means), this delightful sample sentence in the definition of antanaclasis:
Repetition of a word in a sentence in which a different meaning is applied each time: “If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired, with enthusiasm.”
Sooo good!
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This is an inkhorn renaming of one of the secondary definitions of syllepsis. I’m all for the proliferation of tropes; heaven knows they have been undervalued for some time.
Yes, I remember an old Printculture post about syllepsis: http://archive.printculture.com/item-863.html