APOSIOPESIS-SENTENTIAL 假設句後頓絕法
APOSIOPESIS 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.
Hypernym
- APOSIOPESISANOMIA 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 )
- 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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- 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.
- 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.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
DEVICE詞格 METHOD of adorning discourse.
- RHETORICAL
FIGURE形式詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of
expressions in a passage.
REF: Lausberg 924
EX: Lanham: "If you write to her again I shall have you castrated. If you see her again, ..."
Greek/Latin: Scholion on Homer has the term, but it is not found in the tradition down to Quintilian. The phenomenon is current especially in drama, but also elsewhere, but there was no theoretical term for it.
Ancient Chinese: I cannot, at this point, find a clear example. But one will have to read the literature with this question in mind to see whether this form is really absent. I seem to remember that there is a case in Shiji, but this is an isolated case which in no way proves the the rhetorical form was institutionalised. Nonetheless the example needs to be hunted down.
EX: Lanham: "If you write to her again I shall have you castrated. If you see her again, ..."
Greek/Latin: Scholion on Homer has the term, but it is not found in the tradition down to Quintilian. The phenomenon is current especially in drama, but also elsewhere, but there was no theoretical term for it.
Ancient Chinese: I cannot, at this point, find a clear example. But one will have to read the literature with this question in mind to see whether this form is really absent. I seem to remember that there is a case in Shiji, but this is an isolated case which in no way proves the the rhetorical form was institutionalised. Nonetheless the example needs to be hunted down.