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How to use aposiopesis in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word aposiopesis? Here are some examples.

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In ancient Greek rhetoric, the aposiopesis occasionally takes the form of a pause before a change of subject or a digression.
Techniques that helped one child master words like aposiopesis and heterodyned didn't gel with the other.
She uses the dash in the traditional manner, marking pauses, aposiopesis, and rhetorical transitions, but she also uses it in a non-traditional manner.
Aposiopesis is the particular rhetorical device employed by the poet to tell the reader that about which he could speak but will not.
Examples from Classical Literature
The aposiopesis was alarming, and Blarden's direction was obeyed instantaneously.
Though in my edition I have made here an aposiopesis, I think it more probable that a line has been lost.
The aposiopesis here is in character with Hotspur, but there may be a line or more lost.
The aposiopesis, so suited to the hasty, impetuous character of the speaker, makes all clear.
His aposiopesis suggested that there would be uproar and danger to life.
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