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Yes, syllepsis is playable

...and is worth 16 points.

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"Syllepsis" Definition

noun

A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.
The use of a word to modify or govern syntactically two or more words with only one of which it formally agrees in gender, number, or case.
The use of a word in the same grammatical relation to two adjacent words in the context with one literal and the other metaphorical in sense.
A figure of speech in which a word is applied to two others of which it grammatically suits only one (e.g. neither they nor it is working).

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