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In his mock-heroic poem *The Rape of the Lock*, Alexander Pope writes, "Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, / Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea." The use of the verb "take" to govern two different objects ("counsel" and "tea") in two different senses is a witty grammatical device known as what?

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