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APOSIOPESIS (the Greek for " becoming silent ")

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 196 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: APO-ARN
APOSIOPESIS (the Greek for " becoming silent ") , a rhetorical
device
  by which the
speaker
  or writer stops
short
  and leaves something unexpressed, but yet obvious, to be supplied by the
imagination
 . The classical example is the
threat
 , " Quos ego--!" of
Neptune
  (in
Virgil
 , Aen. i. 135).


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