APOSIOPESIS  句未完頓絕法

ANOMIA in the form of ELLIPSIS of the last part of a sentence, paragraph or passage.

Deliberate act of falling silent in mid-sentence.

Also known as RETICENTIA (as opposed to INTERRUPTIO 打斷法 )

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.
  • ANOMIARHETORICAL STYLE of breaking norms, conventions or regular patterns of a language.
    • RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
Hyponym
  • APOSIOPESIS-SENTENTIALAPOSIOPESIS of the last part of a paragraph. Falling silent after a subordinate sentence, thus omitting the main clause, ellipsis of a whole clause.Traditionally known by the Greek tongue-breaker "anantapodoton".The protasis (e.g. first part of a conditional clause) is present, but the apodosis (e.g. the second part of an "if ... then" sentence) is absent.
    REF: Lausberg 877f. Miriam 245.

    EX: I will have revenges on you both

    That all the world shall - I will do such things -

    What they are yet, I know not; but they shall be

    The terrors of the earth! Shak. King Lear 2.4.282

    Greek and Latin: Quintilian 9.2.54: aposiopesin, quam idem Cicero reticentiam, Celsus obticentiam, nonnulli interruptionem appellant... Commonly practised, even in poetry. Very often discussed.

    Ancient Chinese: Absent in the written record, although one may speculate that the phenomenon was as common in ancient Chinese speech as in all other living languages. Examples in Ulrich Unger RHETORIK are unconvincing.

    Rhetorical device locations: 1
    • 左傳 『有窮后羿－－』

      apparently the punctuator of this text found an aposiopesis here