ellipsis 的定义
plural el·lip·ses [ih-lip-seez]. /ɪˈlɪp siz/.
- Grammar. the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words that would complete or clarify the construction, as the omission of who are, while I am, or while we are from I like to interview people sitting down.the omission of one or more items from a construction in order to avoid repeating the identical or equivalent items that are in a preceding or following construction, as the omission of been to Paris from the second clause of I've been to Paris, but they haven't.
- Printing. a mark or marks as ——, …, or * * *, to indicate an omission or suppression of letters or words.
ellipsis 近义词
等同于 figure of speech
ellipsis 的近义词 52 个
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
更多ellipsis例句
- Kepler’s laws of orbital motion tell us that planets orbit their host stars following ellipses.
- For instance, the giant planets’ orbits are not circles, but modestly stretched out ellipses.
- In fact, he showed how all motions in the heavens were versions of circles, ellipses, hyperbolas and parabolas.
- But I noticed that when you quoted this section on page 116, you left “general welfare” out and put an ellipsis in its place.
- With this reading, left (l. 22) would be taken as an ellipsis for being left; with the emended reading, for was left.
- "As soon as I've seen—" and a significant nod supplied the ellipsis.
- A row of asterisks represents an ellipsis in a poetry quotation.
- The remaining points connected with the syntax of substantives, are chiefly points of ellipsis.
- The preceding examples illustrate an apparent paradox, viz., the fact of pleonasm and ellipsis being closely allied.