Synonyms for ellipsis
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ih-lip-sis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈlɪp sɪs |
Top 10 synonyms for ellipsis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- 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
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
Définition of ellipsis
Origin :- 1560s, "an ellipse," from Latin ellipsis, from Greek elleipsis "a falling short, defect, ellipse," from elleipein "to fall short, leave out," from en- "in" + leipein "to leave" (see relinquish). Grammatical sense first recorded 1610s.
- As in figure of speech : noun turn of expression
- An oval is never mistaken for a circle, nor an hyperbola for an ellipsis.
- Extract from : « An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding » by David Hume
- He left the ellipsis to be filled in by the corpulent blackguard's intelligence.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- It's no good having an Ellipsis, if they don't keep it clean.
- Extract from : « A Tangled Tale » by Lewis Carroll
- Supply the ellipsis, and we have, "Whether he is there or no there."
- Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
- "As soon as I've seen—" and a significant nod supplied the ellipsis.
- Extract from : « Warrior Gap » by Charles King
- It does not appear to be an ellipsis and has thus been removed.
- Extract from : « Through the Malay Archipelago » by Emily Richings
- What is pleonasm in a single sentence is ellipsis in a double one.
- Extract from : « A Handbook of the English Language » by Robert Gordon Latham
- An ellipsis or omission of words is found in all kinds of composition.
- Extract from : « Why We Punctuate » by William Livingston Klein
- Soccer is one of the relatively few English experiments in ellipsis.
- Extract from : « The American Language » by Henry L. Mencken
- An ellipsis has been added to indicate the incomplete statement.
- Extract from : « Belford's Magazine, Vol II, No. 10, March 1889 » by Various
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