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APOSIOPESIS
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Irregular inflected form: aposiopeses
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("aposiopesis" is a kind of...):
rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))
Derivation:
aposiopetic (relating to or characteristic of aposiopesis)
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