aposiopesis
Example Sentences
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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
Mrs. Baxter left it at an aposiopesis, a form of speech she was fond of.
From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh
"If you will have it," said Alf, with fine aposiopesis.
From Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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
By the same token—but here the figure of aposiopesis is advantageous to me—old Madam Burridge, of my lodgings, has sent me three large forks and one small, which I left behind.
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Trollope, Thomas Adolphus
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