Synesis

__Synesis-__ the agreement of words according to logic, and not by the grammatical form, a kind of anacoluthon

Mnemonic: It is a SIN to commit SYNesis

Example: “Most of the **audience were** standing, and the house was in a buzz of conversation and expectation. (//Wagner’s Parsifal// by Charles D. Warner) Here, the word “audience” takes the number with the word “was” because with this auxiliary verb, it regularly agrees grammatically. However, it is in harmony with “were”, which is correct logically and not grammatically.

Song: "And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket" (Fergie, "Big Girls Don't Cry"- album The Duchess 2006)

Anna Catherine Volk and Txomina Young