aposiopesis

Life: too many spaces to fill and not enough of -- Of course, standard punctuation could mimic aposiopesis with the pause in thought so large as to stop the reader as in Yeats's "The Second Coming":

Besides line length and spool imagery in "Sibyl's Leaves," perhaps the poem's most striking feature is the ellipsis marking an aposiopesis in its first line, especially singled out by Hopkins in his header to the first fair copy written after the phonograph letter: "sonnet: sprung rhythm: a rest of one stress in the first line" (LPM, p.

I will begin with silence as a break within a sentence (aposiopesis) in plays such as King Lear, Hamlet, and Antony and Cleopatra.

ANOTHER figure that is linked with emotion is aposiopesis. This device is defined as the sudden interruption of a sentence that leaves a statement unfinished for purposes of passion or effect (Lanham 20).

Repetition, stammering and aposiopesis become recurrent features as, for Sandra Gilbert, the impossibility of elegy makes "iteration and (re)iteration of the attributes of events the only available tribute to the war's inescapable factuality (27)".

aposiopesis and erotema); punctuation; plain style; adverbs (e.g.

One graphological deviation is the division of the clause into two lines: Humanity' in one line and i hate you' in a separate last line with some space between the two that creates a dramatic pause known in rhetoric as aposiopesis (Gk.

(13) Both rhetorical devices notably enhance the corporeal dimensions of expression and speech; for a further elaboration of the significance and recurrence of the aposiopesis and ellipsis in Barker's work see Elisabeth Angel-Perez's "Facing Defacement" and Thomas Freeland's "The End of Rhetoric and the Residuum of Pain," respectively.

52), an act of 'aposiopesis, the figure of not finishing what you started' (ibid., p.

The many other devices discussed in this section include aposiopesis, or breaking off midstream, as employed here by G.