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
"Oh yes, and the sheep, too, but—" A pregnant aposiopesis.
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Maurice Henry Hewlett
"If you are not—" The aposiopesis was icy.
From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Sir Max Beerbohm
Yes, but—Richard used the device of aposiopesis; Daniel Dabbs took it for a humorous effect and began a roar, which was summarily interdicted.
From Demos by George Gissing
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 Thomas Adolphus Trollope
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 Tenney Frank
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