Aposiopesis

by: Reema Patel, Lauren Laumas, Sophie Hayes

a form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome by passion (fear, excitement, etc.) or modesty. It can also be when a thought is left uncompleted because of a sudden breaking off.

"Almira Gulch, just because you own half the county doesn't mean that you have the power to run the rest of us. For 23 years I've been dying to tell you what I thought of you! And now--well, being a Christian woman, I can't say it!" (Auntie Em in //The Wizard of Oz //, 1939)

Example 2 : The class was -- but I still hate it.



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Mnemonic Device: A-pause-iopesis

Jordan Lee, Ryan Freer, Andrew Hayden 2nd Block

__**Aposiopesis**__- A form of ellipse by which a speaker comes to an abrupt halt, seemingly overcome by passion (fear, excitement, etc.) or modesty.

__**Example-**__ "She looked perplexed for a moment, and then said, not fiercely, but still loud enough for the furniture to hear: "'Well, I lay if I get hold of you I'll--' "She did not finish, for by this time she was bending down and punching under the bed with the broom . . .." (Aunt Polly in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876)


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 * Mnemonic Device**- Sounds very similar to language containing an apostrophe. It means to remove some word from the sentence. It also sounds like the word apostrophe.