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ellipsis
noun as in figure of speech
Weak matches
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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Example Sentences
But I noticed that when you quoted this section on page 116, you left “general welfare” out and put an ellipsis in its place.
With this reading, left (l. 22) would be taken as an ellipsis for being left; with the emended reading, for was left.
"As soon as I've seen—" and a significant nod supplied the ellipsis.
A row of asterisks represents an ellipsis in a poetry quotation.
The remaining points connected with the syntax of substantives, are chiefly points of ellipsis.
The preceding examples illustrate an apparent paradox, viz., the fact of pleonasm and ellipsis being closely allied.
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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ellipsis, such as: adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, and analogy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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