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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
Example Sentences
Create a meta description tease to increase click through ratesIn 150 characters, markets should include the best part of a post and end with an ellipsis.
First, it’s less than a 45-minute walk from the Ellipsis to the Capitol.
Kepler’s laws of orbital motion tell us that planets orbit their host stars following ellipses.
For instance, the giant planets’ orbits are not circles, but modestly stretched out ellipses.
In fact, he showed how all motions in the heavens were versions of circles, ellipses, hyperbolas and parabolas.
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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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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