aposiopesis (Crossword)
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- Clue: Rhetorical device
Answer: aposiopesis
Definitions of “aposiopesis”
If the answer you seek is not in the answers above these definitions may help solving your crossword puzzle.• A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly
• An interruption of an expresion without a subsequent restarting
• An interruption of an expresion without a subsequent restarting
• Suddenly stopping in the middle of a speech for emphasis
• Aposiopesis is when a sentence is purposefully left incomplete or cut off
• Aposiopesis (s; Classical Greek: ἀποσιώπησις
• Breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)
• (Greek: `becoming silent`), a speaker`s deliberate failure to complete a sentence
• A sudden breaking off in the midst of a sentence, as if from inability or unwillingness to proceed
• Aposiopesis is an abrupt breaking away from a sentence and leaving it unfinished for the sake of greater effect
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