Zeugma

Zeugma, Greek zeûgma, "a yoking together," "is the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words or phrases": one verb reaching two objects, one reading literal and the other figurative. Syllepsis "is a form of zeugma used in such a manner that it applies to each word or phrase in a different sense." The canon from the article: Pope's Queen Anne, who "Dost sometimes Counsel take – and sometimes Tea"; Dickens's Miss Bolo, who went home "in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair"; Twain's boys, who "covered themselves with dust and glory."

For the prose writer zeugma is wit compressed into syntax: the distance between the two senses is the joke, and the figure prices at one per scene before it turns precious. It is juxtaposition built into a sentence, and overused it is one seed of purple prose.