elision
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The woman is Ruhaba Khan, a Pakistani law professor whose voice comes to us only in her emails — an intriguing elision not unlike the titular character’s from “Lolita.”
From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023
Like Martel, Wells knows the power of narrative elision: “Aftersun” may be a feature-length flashback, but apart from a few lyrical framing elements, its story unfolds in a spare, self-contained present tense.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2022
The May 11 KidsPost article “How to be daring on Eat What You Want Day” contained an amazing elision.
From Washington Post • May 20, 2022
Late in Uncanny Valley, Wiener seems to make a specific argument about her adventures in elision.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2020
This rather deliberate elision of Fermi’s role in neutron research was the prelude to a pitch for $2,250 “to increase the yield of neutron radiation tenfold or more.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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