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Aposiopesis

noun
(pl. aposiopeses)
1.
Breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations).





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"Aposiopesis" Quotes from Famous Books



... Laurie's very happy. Not that I would willingly disturb his mind again; I don't mean that, my dear. I quite understand that your religion is just the one for certain temperaments, and Laurie's is one of them; but a few helpful words sometimes—" Mrs. Baxter left it at an aposiopesis, a form of speech she ...
— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson
... grammars of rhetoric and logic in the world.... Who ever reasoned better for having been taught the difference between a syllogism and an enthymeme? Who ever composed with greater spirit and elegance because he could define an oxymoron or an aposiopesis?" THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. Trevelyan's Life of ...
— Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School • Edwin L. Miller


Words linked to "Aposiopesis" :   rhetorical device, aposiopetic


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