When you stop speaking and change the subject, you have committed aposiopesis. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/aposiopesis]
LOL It's called aposiopesis when you end a sentence with an ellipsis; look it up. From Wordnik.com. [Top Hillary Adviser: Richardson Privately Said Obama Is Unelectable] Reference
No, aposiopesis means stopping a sentence short, which you did not do. From Wordnik.com. [Top Hillary Adviser: Richardson Privately Said Obama Is Unelectable] Reference
Take this famous example of aposiopesis, which ends Sterne's A Sentimental Journey. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-05-01] Reference
Also, when writing a statement using aposiopesis should use an em dash, rather then an ellipsis. From Wordnik.com. [Top Hillary Adviser: Richardson Privately Said Obama Is Unelectable] Reference
There is no figurative language here; but there is the figure of aposiopesis, which (since it's just an artful breaking off of a sentence) is never figurative (in the sense we usually mean). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-05-01] Reference
I was briefly admonished to see that I wrote worse for the future, or else ---- At this aposiopesis I looked enquiringly at the speaker, and he filled up the chasm by saying, that he would "annihilate" me. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
First, they imagine, in this clause, the use of the figure aposiopesis, according to which something not expressed is understood; then they begin a new sentence, 'He shall be punished sevenfold,' which they refer to Cain. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1] Reference
"If you will have it," said Alf, with fine aposiopesis. From Wordnik.com. [Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel] Reference
"Oh yes, and the sheep, too, but --" A pregnant aposiopesis. From Wordnik.com. [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference
The previous sentence, for example, shows the use of aposiopesis. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
It even includes aposiopesis - now how many songs can you say that about?. From Wordnik.com. [Chinalyst - China blogs in English] Reference
He filled up his aposiopesis with an uncouth gesture, signifying 'I may as well get back to Australia.'. From Wordnik.com. [Yet Again] Reference
Who ever composed with greater spirit and elegance because he could define an oxymoron or an aposiopesis?. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference
"So ..." said Mr. Carmyle, becoming articulate, and allowed an impressive aposiopesis to take the place of the rest of the speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Sally] Reference
Yes, but -- Richard used the device of aposiopesis; Daniel Dabbs took it for a humorous effect and began a roar, which was summarily interdicted. From Wordnik.com. [Demos] Reference
He paused, not in order to produce the effect of a dramatic aposiopesis, but because he could not for the moment remember other names of painters. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol] Reference
Eustathius, and Clarke after him, understand an aposiopesis here, as if the speaker meant to say -- what if there should be? or -- suppose there should be?. From Wordnik.com. [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference
Tamar's answer, "if thou wilt give a pledge until thou send it," is an unfinished statement, an aposiopesis, the omitted conclusion being, "I shall be satisfied.". From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
Rather, understand the words by aposiopesis; it is usual in threats to leave the persons threatened to supply the hiatus from their own fears, owing to conscious guilt: For. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
At times, legs, arms, a leg or an arm, the throat, or the exposed breast assume an importance above that of the rest of the mass, suggesting the unfinished sculpture of Michael Angelo, an aposiopesis which, of course, served as Rodin's inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference
'You did, sir,' you say, as you advance stealthily upon him, 'but as you dictated those notes at the rate of two hundred words a minute, and as my brain, though large, is not capable of absorbing sixty pages of a note-book in one night, how the suggestively asterisked aposiopesis do you expect me to know them?. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of St. Austin's] Reference
Who ever composed with greater spirit and elegance because he could define an oxymoron or an aposiopesis? ". From Wordnik.com. [Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School] Reference
By the same token ” but here the figure of aposiopesis is advantageous to me ” old Madam Burridge, of my lodgings, has sent me three large forks and one small, which I left behind. From Wordnik.com. [What I Remember]
I'm familiar with aposiopesis. From Wordnik.com. [Top Hillary Adviser: Richardson Privately Said Obama Is Unelectable] Reference
The apodosis is not stated -- aposiopesis. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
"If you are not --" The aposiopesis was icy. From Wordnik.com. [Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story] Reference
V. -- Why this aposiopesis?. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
Well, we will let the aposiopesis stand. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking] Reference
To use a double entendre rhetorical device, it’s all just so ellipsical and the aposiopesis-ness of it all …. is beyond belief.pz. v. p.s. street party.now. downtown copenhagen p.p.s. sure your not talking about B17B birmin’am? the giant iceberg (140 square km’s) reported as speeding towards Albany, WA at about 1 knot per hour. From Wordnik.com. [Cheeseburger Gothic » The sky is not falling! The sky is not falling!] Reference
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