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title: "Ellipsis, antithesis"
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# Ellipsis, antithesis

> Ellipsis is the omission from a sentence of words which are normally needed to complete the grammat...

**Ellipsis** is the omission from a sentence of words which are normally needed to complete the grammatical construction or meaning. It occurs most often in everyday speech, in expressions such as *Told you so* (= I told you so) and *Sounds fine to me* (= It *or* that sounds fine to me), and also occurs regularly in all kinds of spoken and written English.

E.g.: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNhHGR2udPM](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNhHGR2udPM)

Antithesis is a [rhetorical term](http://grammar.about.com/od/terms/a/rhetermstype07.htm) for the [juxtaposition](http://grammar.about.com/od/il/g/Juxtaposition-term.htm) of contrasting ideas in balanced [phrases](http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/phrase.htm) or [clauses](http://grammar.about.com/od/c/g/clauseterm.htm). Usually it is built up with the help of 4 words: 2 of them - antonyms and other two make antithesis.

E.g.: His coat-sleeves being a great deal too long, and his trousers a great deal too short, he appeared ill at ease in his clothes. *(Dickens)*

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[http://www.answers.com/topic/ellipsis#ixzz2P8aIWjRq](http://www.answers.com/topic/ellipsis#ixzz2P8aIWjRq)

http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/antithesis.htm

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