aposiopesis
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And the novel's final line, from inside Valentine's head, is a typical and brilliant Fordian aposiopesis: "She was setting out on …" It could end there.
From The Guardian
And he turned away with a shrug to point his admirable aposiopesis.
From Project Gutenberg
Raphael, Michael Angelo, Wiertz, Reynolds——” He paused, not in order to produce the effect of a dramatic aposiopesis, but because he could not for the moment remember other names of painters.
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Who ever composed with greater spirit and elegance because he could define an oxymoron or an aposiopesis?”
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By judicious selection, by innuendo, here a pitying aposiopesis, there an indignant outburst, the charges are heaped up.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
