Purposeful omission

Omission (from the Latin omittere: " omit, omit " even abscission ) is a stylistic device of rhetoric of poetry and prose. In the aesthetics of a trope or symbol with negative or positive appeal function is called Omission.

Omission

In contrast to the hyperbole that gain their interpretative function by exaggeration or by an excess, is meant by the conscious omission of a knock out actually to be expected details. The omission in this way creates too little, a kind of blank space ( cf. Iser) or uncertainty (see Ingarden ), whose interpretation is hermeneutic relevant than the information for the omitted details itself particularly detective novel analytical and drama often make use of Omissionen.

Example

Faust asks Gretchen: " Can not I go with you? ". Gretchen says: " The mother would be me - farewell. " The indent used constitutes an omission