Omission
Omission (from the Latin omittere: “to leave out, to omit”, also abscission ) is a stylistic device of rhetoric , poetry and prose . In aesthetics , a trope or a symbol with a negative or positive appeal function is called an omen.
omission
In contrast to hyperbola , which gain their interpretive function through exaggeration or through too much, an ommission is understood to be the conscious omission of a detail that is actually to be expected. In this way, the omission creates too little, a kind of void (cf. Iser) or indefiniteness (cf. Ingarden ), the interpretation of which is often more hermeneutically relevant than the information of the omitted detail itself. Detective novels and analytical drama in particular often make use of omissions .
example
Faust asks Gretchen: "May I not come with you?" . Gretchen replies: "The mother would me - farewell." The dash used represents an omission.
See also
literature
- J. Dominik Harjung: Lexikon der Sprachkunst , CH Beck, 2000, ISBN 3406421598
- Peter Matussek: Haiku - The Art of Omission