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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 196 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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APOSIOPESIS (the
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Greek for " becoming silent ")  , a rhetorical
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device by which the
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speaker or writer stops
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short and leaves something unexpressed, but yet obvious, to be supplied by the
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imagination . The classical example is the
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threat, " Quos ego--!" of
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Neptune (in
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Virgil, Aen. i . 135) .

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