apophasis
apophasis \uh-POF-uh-sis\, noun
Denial of one's intention to speak of a subject that is at the same time named or insinuated, as ?I shall not mention Caesar's avarice, nor his cunning, nor his morality.?
But I think that anything that is deep isn't love, it's deliberate calculation or schizophrenia. I myself wouldn't even attempt to say what love is - probably both love and God can only be defined by apophasis, through those things that they are not.
-- Viktor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
"?Now, I have no desire to be a backseat driver?? Apophasis, Chris thought; saying you're not going to say something in order to say it. Nixon's favorite device, and Newt Gingrich's, and Karl Rove's?fine old
Republican tradition.
-- John Barnes, Directive 51
Apophasis stems from the Greek word ap�pha meaning "to say no, deny." The suffix -sis appears in Greek
loanwords, where it forms an abstract noun from a verb, as in thesis.
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anacoluthon
anacoluthon \an-uh-kuh-LOO-thon\, noun
1. A construction involving a break in grammatical sequence, as It makes me so?I just get angry.
2. An instance of anacoluthia.
She employed, not from any refinement of style, but in order to correct her imprudences, abrupt breaches of syntax not unlike that figure which the grammarians call anacoluthon or some such name.
-- Marcel Proust, The Remembrance of Things Past
Sometimes there is no main verb at all, or the sentence is an anacoluthon, beginning in one way and ending in
another.
-- Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda
Anacoluthon has a very literal meaning in Greek. The root kolouth- meant "march." However this root has two prefixes. First, the prefix a- means "together." The other prefix "an-" means "not following." In Greek anak�louthos meant "not following."
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aper�u
aper�u \a-per-SY\, noun
1. A hasty glance; a glimpse.
2. An immediate estimate or judgment; understanding; insight.
3. An outline or summary.
Dr. Lornier, if you would be kind enough to give us a summary of your accomplishments and an aper�u of your plans for the next two months.
-- Mona Risk, To Love a Hero
He was going to lecture that afternoon on Prosperity and, since I was unable to go to the lecture, he was good enough to give me an aper�u of the situation.
-- Ford Madox Ford, It Was the Nightingale
Aper�u literally means "perceived" in French. It entered English in the 1820s.
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