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aposiopesis
MEANING: breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)
Hypernym Tree (aposiopesis is a type of)
rhetorical_device -- (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance)
device -- (something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
expressive_style, style -- (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
communication -- (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups
social_relation -- (a relation between living organisms (especially between people)
relation -- (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together
abstraction -- (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
Also See
anacoluthia, anacoluthon -- (an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another
repetition -- (the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
anastrophe, inversion -- (the reversal of the normal order of words
antiphrasis -- (the use of a word in a sense opposite to its normal sense (especially in irony)
antithesis -- (the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
antinomasia -- (substitution of a title for a name
apophasis -- (mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned
aposiopesis -- (breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)
apostrophe -- (address to an absent or imaginary person
catachresis -- (strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths')
chiasmus -- (inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
climax -- (arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness
conversion -- (interchange of subject and predicate of a proposition
ecphonesis, exclamation -- (an exclamatory rhetorical device; "O tempore! O mores"
emphasis -- (special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g.
enallage -- (a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I')
epanorthosis -- (immediate rephrasing for intensification or justification; "Seems, madam! Nay, it is"
epiplexis -- (a rhetorical device in which the speaker reproaches the audience in order to incite or convince them
hendiadys -- (use of two conjoined nouns instead of a noun and modifier
hypallage -- (reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
hyperbaton -- (reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')
hypozeugma -- (use of a series of subjects with a single predicate
hypozeuxis -- (use of a series of parallel clauses (as in `I came, I saw, I conquered')
hysteron_proteron -- (reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')
litotes, meiosis -- (understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary); "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"
onomatopoeia -- (using words that imitate the sound they denote
paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition -- (suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted
paregmenon -- (juxtaposing words having a common derivation (as in `sense and sensibility')
polysyndeton -- (using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy')
prolepsis -- (anticipating and answering objections in advance
wellerism -- (a comparison comprising a well-known quotation followed by a facetious sequel
trope, figure_of_speech, figure, image -- (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
