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10. You do know what apophasis means, right?

Thu Jan 1, 2015, 01:16 AM

Jan 2015

Here, I'll help you.

Definition:

A rhetorical term for the mention of something in disclaiming intention of mentioning it--or pretending to deny what is really affirmed. Adjective: apophatic or apophantic. Similar to paralepsis and praeteritio.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines apophasis by quoting John Smith's The Mysterie of Rhetorique Unvail'd (1657): "a kind of Irony, whereby we deny that we say or doe that which we especially say or doe."

http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/apophasis.htm

Apropos of which, Happy New Year.

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