Spontaneous vs Prosiopesis - What's the difference?
spontaneous | prosiopesis |
Self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.
Done by one's own free choice, or without planning.
proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external or conscious constraint
arising from a momentary impulse
controlled and directed internally; self-active; spontaneous movement characteristic of living things
produced without being planted or without human labor]]; [[endemic, indigenous
Random.
Sudden, without warning.
(grammar) Ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical construction, common in informal speech and spontaneous written electronic communication, frequently occurring in stock phrases and interjections.
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As an adjective spontaneous
is self-generated; happening without any apparent external cause.As a noun prosiopesis is
(grammar) ellipsis of the beginning of a grammatical construction, common in informal speech and spontaneous written electronic communication, frequently occurring in stock phrases and interjections.spontaneous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He made a spontaneous offer of help.
- a spontaneous growth of wood
Synonyms
* (self-generated) autonomous * (sense, done by one's own free choice) autonomous * autonomousDerived terms
* spontaneousityprosiopesis
English
Noun
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- Traditional rhetoric was much concerned with the phenomenon of elision, because of the implications for constructing well-formed metrical lines, which would scan well. In rhetorical terminology, an elision in word-initial position was known as aphaeresis'' or ''prosiopesis'' , in word-medial position as ''syncope'', and in word-final position as ''apocope . A similar classification was made for the opposite of elision, intrusion.
- The students of English were making good progress in getting to grips with the intricacies of informal constructions, peppering their conversations with proverbial idioms and substituting stock phrases like ''Good morning!'' and ''Thank you.'' with prosiopeses like ''Morning!'' and ''?Kyou.