ARSIS-AND-THESIS+ELLIPSIS  先舉後棄法

ARSIS-AND-THESIS in which only the dismissed statement is made explicitly, and the asserted statement is left to be understood.

Hypernym
  • ELLIPSIS省略法 RHETORICAL FIGURE of omitting an expression which is to be understood from context.Leaving out of words or phrases which have to be understood in order to understand what is said. Compare ZEUGMA, which is ELLIPSIS of a word that "re"curs in context.
    • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
  • ARSIS-AND-THESISSPEECH ACT of making a statement and elaborating one's point of view by dismissing an alternative or contrasting statement. Dismissal of one proposition in order to prepare the way for another.
    • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
      • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
Examples seem to be many, but I have never remembered to pin them down.

    Rhetorical device locations: 1
    • 論語 「事君盡禮， 人以為諂也