A rhetorical question is a figure of speech in the form of a question that is asked in order to make a point.The question is used as a rhetorical device, posed for the sake of encouraging its listener to consider a message or viewpoint.
Examples:1. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
2. If practice makes perfect, and no one's perfect, then why practice?
3. How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?
Ellipsis is a series of dots that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word, sentence or whole section from the original text being quoted, and though necessary for syntactical construction, is not necessary for comprehension.
“If a final portion of a sentence is elided, follow the ellipsis with a period . . . . The same technique is applied in the case of a comma or a semicolon.”
litotes is a figure of speech in which understatement is employed for rhetorical effect,principally via double negatives. Litotes is a form of understatement, always deliberate and with the intention of emphasis .For example, rather than saying that something is attractive (or even very attractive), one might merely say it is "not unattractive".
Aposiopesis (breaking-in-the-narrative)is a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination, giving an impression of unwillingness or inability to continue. An example would be the threat "Get out, or else—!"More exaples:
“Well, I say if I get a hold of you I'll—.”
"Unless I had believed I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living …"
In linguistics, an apokoinu construction is a blend of two clauses through a lexical word which has two syntactical functions, one in each of the blended clauses. The clauses are connected asyndentically.
Usually the word common for both sentences is a predicative or an object in the first sentence and subject in the second one. As such constructions are not part of standard modern English, they serve a stylistic function of characterizing a character through his speech as uneducated.Examples:
"There was no breeze came through the door". (E. Hemingway)
"There was a door led into the kitchen". (E. Hemingway)
"This is the sword killed him." (Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics)