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Apophasis (Late Latin, from Greek apophanai , "to say no" ) refers, in general, to "mentioning by not mentioning". Apophasis covers a wide variety of figures of speech. Apophasis was originally and...
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Emphasizing a point by seeming to pass over it. See also: ... Paralepsis in Benchley's "The Tooth" ... "The music, the service at the feast, The noble gifts for the great and small, The rich adornment of Theseus's palace . . . All these things I do not mention now."; (Chaucer, "The Knight's Tale," The Canterbury Tales)
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Paralepsis is a rhetorical strategy by which a speaker says (often emphatically and at great length) what he or she claims isn't worth saying at all.
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Definition of Paralepsis in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of Paralepsis. Pronunciation of Paralepsis. Translations of Paralepsis. Paralepsis synonyms, Paralepsis antonyms. Information about Paralepsis in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... Paralepsis; Paraleptamphopus; Paraleptamphopus caeruleus;
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One of my favourite words is paralepsis (I've even talked about it before). It's a word from the ancient study of rhetoric and it essentially means that you state loudly the subjects that you're not going to talk about - in the process bringing what you're omitting into the forefront of people's consciousness.
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Stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over. A kind of irony. ... It would be unseemly for me to dwell on Senator Kennedy's drinking problem, ... Melville's narrator of Moby Dick, Ishmael, manages to characterize Queequeg in the very act of stating he will pass over such details:;
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Dictionary of Difficult Words - paraleipsis, paralepsis, paralipsis Find a word Find a difficult word here. © RM 2009. Helicon Publishing is division of RM. Advertisement starts Advertisement ends ;
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so much remains unsaid ... Wednesday, July 01, 2009 ... Synopsis: Mark Sanford and John Edwards hitchhike to Argentina. He's a Republican! He's a Democrat! They're both horndogs! Buddy-movie hilarity ensues. In Costa Rica they meet with the ex-President of Honduras and decide to stage a counter-coup, but they end up just making a...
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Cross-posed at Daily Kos. This is the second in a series of posts on how concepts from rhetoric can be used to help transform the current political climate. For a broader context, see the first entry (on stasis theory). ... Today's entry is on kairos. Kairos is usually defined as ... You think you can catch Keyser Soze?
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