aposiopesis
英 [,æpə(ʊ),saɪə'piːsɪs]
美
英文词源
- aposiopesis (n.)
- rhetorical artifice wherein the speaker suddenly breaks off in the middle of a sentence, 1570s, from Latin, from Greek aposiopesis "a becoming silent," also as a rhetorical figure, from apo- (see apo-) + siope "silence."