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aposiopesis
noun as in figure of speech
Weak matches
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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Example Sentences
The aposiopesis was alarming, and Blarden's direction was obeyed instantaneously.
Though in my edition I have made here an aposiopesis, I think it more probable that a line has been lost.
There may have been, as Malone thought, a line lost here; but I rather think it is an aposiopesis.
There is either an aposiopesis or a line lost after this; I think the latter.
There may be a line lost here; I make in preference an aposiopesis.
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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to aposiopesis, such as: adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, and analogy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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