• the occurrence of aposiopesis with punctuation, an em-rule (—) or an ellipsis (...) may be used. One classical example of aposiopesis in Virgil occurs...
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  • Hope. "Get out or else—" Either an ellipsis or an em dash can indicate aposiopesis, the rhetorical device by which a sentence is stopped short not because...
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  • of the kitchen") "Birds of a feather..." (implied: "flock together") Aposiopesis Xiehouyu Stephen Wayne Whitworth (1997). The Name of the Ancients: humanist...
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  • a slight pause, an echoing voice, or a nervous or awkward silence. Aposiopesis is the use of an ellipsis to trail off into silence—for example: "But...
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  • unfinished thought or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence (aposiopesis). The ellipsis was adopted into Japanese from European languages. The...
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  • The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase is a non-fiction book by Mark Forsyth published in 2013. The book explains classical...
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  • winds. Virgil's phrase is an example of the figure of speech called aposiopesis. Neptune is angry with the winds, whom Juno released to start a storm...
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    question if a word or phrase is properly used to characterize a subject. Aposiopesis: breaking off or pausing speech for dramatic or emotional effect, often...
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  • 15, 2016, Levi sent an update to his mailing list titled "Goodbye / Aposiopesis". He stated that music would no longer be his occupation. He had accepted...
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  • (siōpḗ), σιωπᾶν (siōpân), σιωπητέος (siōpētéos), σιώπησις (siṓpēsis) aposiopesis, aposiopetic siph- tube Greek σίφων (síphōn) siphon, siphonoglyph sist-...
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  • (siōpḗ), σιωπᾶν (siōpân), σιωπητέος (siōpētéos), σιώπησις (siṓpēsis) aposiopesis, aposiopetic siph- tube Greek σίφων (síphōn) siphon, siphonoglyph sist-...
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  • without the need for additional movement rules. Anaphora (linguistics) Aposiopesis Question under discussion Right node raising Squiggle operator Whiz deletion...
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    declaration of doubt, made for rhetorical purpose and often feigned. Aposiopesis – an abrupt stop in the middle of a sentence; used by a speaker to convey...
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  • interjections, which can shed light on their meaning. This is similar to aposiopesis, where the ending of a sentence is deliberately excluded. David Crystal...
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    techniques contribute in creating comedic effect, and an example of this is aposiopesis, which is the device of suddenly breaking off in musical speech for dramatic...
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    Rhetorica ad Herennium claims creates animation and power in the speech. Aposiopesis occurs when a speaker deliberately does not finish a statement about...
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  • Thomas Daniel Schlee Three Signs, Op. 53 (2002) Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau Aposiopesis Music for violoncello (1990) Morgenlachen (Morning Laughter) Music for...
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  • poplar trees"). In Persian: vaght-e gol-e ney ("when bamboo blossoms") Aposiopesis Black swan theory Nonsense Paradox 'Pataphysics Scarborough Fair (ballad)...
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  • 2:41 "Host" (Mark Bell) – 5:50 "Bath" (Björk, Akira Rabelais) – 5:07 "Aposiopesis" (Akira Rabelais) – 5:16 "Hunter Vessel" – 6:36 "Shimenawa" – 2:48 "Vessel...
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    Bough (1834) Music "And Then There Was Silence" Gates of Fire Study Aposiopesis Dactylic hexameter Hysteron proteron Sortes Vergilianae Related Brutus...
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    apothegm A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence...
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    Melanie Safka, and included on Born to Be (1968). "Bath" interpolates "Aposiopesis", a track by Akira Rabelais, included in Eisoptrophobia (2001). "Bílavísur"...
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    album, The Temple in the Underworld, and recorded a video for the song "Aposiopesis". The following years "were in the sign of personal problems between...
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  • Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata". A music video was made for the track "Aposiopesis". The Temple in the Underworld has received positive reviews. MetalReviews...
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  • 2:47 "This Is No Fun" – 3:47 "Extended Holiday" – 3:20 "Rockist Part 3 (Aposiopesis)" – 2:12 "Rockist Part 4" – 5:32 David Brewis (Field Music) Barry Hyde...
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    popular saying, maxim; idiom"), xiehouyu (歇後語/歇后语; "truncated witticism, aposiopesis; enigmatic folk simile"), xiyu (習語/习语; "idiom"), and guanyongyu (慣用語/惯用语;...
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    Bough (1834) Music "And Then There Was Silence" Gates of Fire Study Aposiopesis Dactylic hexameter Hysteron proteron Sortes Vergilianae Related Brutus...
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    anadiplosis, epanalepsis, epizeuxis, articulus, epanorthosis, epistrophe, aposiopesis, anaphora, polyptoton, synoeciosis, polysyndeton and asteismus. His analysis...
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