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There is also another kind of figure,
which is not aposiopesis, since that involves leaving
a sentence unfinished, but consists in bringing our
words to a close before the natural point for their
conclusion. The following is an example1: “I am
pressing my point too far; the young man appears
to be moved”; or2 “Why should I say more? you
heard the young man tell the story himself.”
The imitation of other persons' characteristics,
Quintilian. With An English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1922.
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