Paraprosdokian






 * Definition:: **//Paraprosdokian// is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected in a way that c auses the reader or listener to reframe or reinterpret the first part. It is frequently used for humorous or dramatic effect, sometimes producing an anticlimax. For this reason, it is extremely popular among comedians and satirists.

Examples from the text include:

"She looks as though she's been poured into her clothes, and forgot to say 'when'." —P.G. Wodehouse "I like going to the park and watching the children run around because they don't know I'm using blanks." —Emo Phillips → The Internet

"...Henrietta was informed that her orders had been obeyed, and that she could now enter the nuptial chamber whenever she wished... And so she came... armed with a dagger which she herself had plucked from Williams’s heart..." → The Effects of Dispair

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