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
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
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
He filled up his aposiopesis with an uncouth gesture, signifying 'I may as well get back to Australia.'
From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
Mrs. Baxter left it at an aposiopesis, a form of speech she was fond of.
From The Necromancers by Benson, Robert Hugh
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