I wrote recently<\/a>, "Fear not, I shall not report on the state of my bowels, which is excellent, nor pull a Trump and crow about the efficacy of my schlong."<\/span><\/p>\n The sentence illustrates the literary trope called apophasis. Wikipedia:<\/span><\/p>\n Apophasis<\/strong> is a rhetorical device<\/a> wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up.[1]<\/a><\/sup>Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n The device is also called paralipsis<\/strong> (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03ac\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03c8\u03b9\u03c2) \u2013 also spelled paraleipsis<\/strong> or paralepsis<\/strong> \u2013 or occupatio<\/strong>,[2]<\/a><\/sup>[3]<\/a><\/sup>[4]<\/a><\/sup>[5]<\/a><\/sup> and known also as praeteritio<\/strong>,preterition<\/strong>, antiphrasis<\/strong> (\u1f00\u03bd\u03c4\u03af\u03c6\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2), or parasiopesis<\/strong> (\u03c0\u03b1\u03c1\u03b1\u03c3\u03b9\u03ce\u03c0\u03b7\u03c3\u03b9\u03c2).<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote recently, "Fear not, I shall not report on the state of my bowels, which is excellent, nor pull a Trump and crow about the efficacy of my schlong." The sentence illustrates the literary trope called apophasis. Wikipedia: Apophasis is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either … Continue reading “Apophasis<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n