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We used to laugh over aposiopesis in Latin class because it seemed disarmingly colloquial for a sea god to talk like that.
WSJ: Austin Ratner, Author of In the Land of the Living, on Aposiopesis | Word Craft
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But aposiopesis is important in literature because of its colloquial humanness.
WSJ: Austin Ratner, Author of In the Land of the Living, on Aposiopesis | Word Craft
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Aposiopesis is one of those literary tropes you learn while studying "The Aeneid" in high school Latin, and it stuck in my head better than many others over the intervening years.
WSJ: Austin Ratner, Author of In the Land of the Living, on Aposiopesis | Word Craft
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Aposiopesis refers to a breaking-off of speech, and in Book I of "The Aeneid" the god Neptune does just that while chastising the East and West winds for making a storm without his permission.
WSJ: Austin Ratner, Author of In the Land of the Living, on Aposiopesis | Word Craft
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When I was searching for a title for my book on those who die young and those who survive, and on the temptations of self-destruction for those who do, I came across another beautiful example of aposiopesis, one even older than Virgil.
WSJ: Austin Ratner, Author of In the Land of the Living, on Aposiopesis | Word Craft