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APOSIOPESIS (the Greek for " becoming silent ")

APOSIOPESIS (the See also:
GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND
Greek for " becoming silent ") , a rhetorical See also:

DEVICE

device by which the See also:

SPEAKER

speaker or writer stops See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short and leaves something unexpressed, but yet obvious, to be supplied by the See also:

IMAGINATION

imagination . The classical example is the See also:

THREAT

threat, " Quos ego--!" of See also:

Neptune (in See also:

Virgil, Aen. i . 135) .

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