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paraleipsis

Figure of speech in which a speaker or writer emphasizes something by pretending to pass it over, usually with a phrase such as ‘to say nothing of’, or ‘not to mention’.
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Still it is interesting to note that at one of the most crucial moments of Ed's characterization, Dunbar's narrator describes Ed through a gesture of apophasis.
The politics of incongruity in Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Fanatics by Hughes, Jennifer A. / African American Review
 
 
 
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