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 ● Aug. 24, 2012
And he turned away with a shrug to point his admirable aposiopesis.
From Witching Hill by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
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.
From The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by Ball, Alec
Who ever composed with greater spirit and elegance because he could define an oxymoron or an aposiopesis?
From Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1 by Trevelyan, George Otto, Sir
"Oh yes, and the sheep, too, but—" A pregnant aposiopesis.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
The whole plot of the Ciris is in fact unravelled by means of a series of allusions and suggestions, exclamations and soliloquies, parentheses and aposiopeses, interrogations and apostrophes.
From Vergil A Biography by Frank, Tenney
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