NOUN
- breaking off in the middle of a sentence (as by writers of realistic conversations)
How To Use aposiopesis In A Sentence
- This wouldn't be much of a play, so Donaghy tells it in stammers and dithers, fragmented verbiage and non sequiturs, inchoate bits and overlapping dialogue, aposiopesis and time lags (a question is answered three or four lines later).
- She uses the dash in the traditional manner, marking pauses, aposiopesis, and rhetorical transitions, but she also uses it in a non-traditional manner.
- In ancient Greek rhetoric, the aposiopesis occasionally takes the form of a pause before a change of subject or a digression.
- The first sentence is a continuation of the aposiopesis in the previous paragraph - the answer to the unspoken question, ‘What did you think about?’
