paralepsis

• Риторический приём, при котором говорящий или пишущий привлекает внимание к теме, заявляя, что опускает её, или намеренно кратко её упоминая.

A rhetorical device in which a speaker or writer draws attention to a subject by claiming to omit it or by passing over it in a deliberately brief manner.

1. Rhetorical deviceC2formal

   A figure of speech in which the speaker or writer emphasizes something by pretending to pass over it or ignore it.

   Риторический приём

   • In his speech, he used paralepsis by saying, 'I won't even mention his many awards.'
   • The author employed paralepsis to draw attention to the very thing he claimed to omit.
   • She said, 'I need not remind you of your past mistakes,' a classic example of paralepsis.

   Синонимыapophasisparalipsispreterition