Rhetoric

In Rhetoric, the reserve is a figure of construction which consists of an unfinished statement whose direction remains clear. The reserve is employed to attenuate the direction of an expression by leaving the care to the interlocutor to guess the continuation of it. Consequently, the reserve can exploit the polysemous character of the statement.

Examples

• “ It spoke about… finally you will have guessed. ”
• “ It in A. ”

See too

• Abruption
• Aposiopèse

Right

• In right, the reserve is the fact of making a fraud by keeping silence.

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