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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Aposiopesis
Britannica 11thAPOSIOPESIS (the Greek for " becoming silent "), a rhetorical device by which the speaker or writer stops short and leaves something unexpressed, but yet obvious, to be supplied by the imagination. The classical example is the threat, " Quos ego 1" of Neptune ...
Vol. 2, pp. 196-196
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