different between brachylogy vs aposiopesis

English

Alternative forms

• brachyology, brachylogia

Etymology

From brachy- +? -logy, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (brakhulogía), from ?????? (brakhús, “short”) + ????? (logía, “speech”); compare brachyology.

Noun

brachylogy (uncountable)

1. concise speech; laconism
2. (rhetoric) Any of several forms of omission of words, including the omission of an understood part of a phrase, as, the omission of "good" from "(good) morning!"

Hyponyms

• (rhetoric): zeugma, syllepsis, apokoinou, compendious comparison, praegnans constructio, asyndeton, aposiopesis

Translations

See also

• ellipsis

English

Etymology

From Latin aposiopesis, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (aposi?p?sis), from ????????? (aposi?pá?, “be silent”), from ??? (apó, “off, from”) + ?????? (si?pá?, “to be silent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æp?sa???pi?s?s/
• Hyphenation: apo?si?o?pe?sis

Noun

aposiopesis (countable and uncountable, plural aposiopeses)

1. (rhetoric) An abrupt breaking-off in speech, often indicated in print using an ellipsis (…) or an em dash (—).

   Synonym: (obsolete) reticence

   • 1938, Samuel Beckett, Murphy, London: George Routledge & Sons, OCLC 939632162; republished New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, 1957, OCLC 855435111, page 164:

     “Have fire in this garret before night or—” / He stopped because he could not go on. It was an aposiopesis of the purest kind.

Hypernyms

• brachylogy

Translations

See also

• adynaton
• anapodoton
• ellipsis
• or else

References

• Silva Rhetoricae

Further reading

• aposiopesis at OneLook Dictionary Search
• aposiopesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia