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"One of the oldest rhetorical tricks is to emphasize a point by pretending to deny it. This notion is so core to rhetoric that the ancient Greeks even had a few related figures of speech named for it — most broadly, apophasis (from the Greek word for “to deny”), the figure of speech that stresses an idea or image by negating it. [...]

There is a related figure, Paralipsis, [...] is a rhetorical figure of speech wherein the speaker or writer invokes a subject by denying that it should be invoked. [...] Paralipsis is usually employed to make a subversive ad hominem attack. The device is typically used to distance the speaker from unfair claims, while still bringing them up. For instance, a politician might say, “I don’t even want to talk about the allegations that my opponent is a drunk.” … Proslepsis is an extreme kind of paralipsis that gives the full details of the acts one is claiming to pass over [...]" 

Transcrevi isto porque achei o apontamento pedagógico, e por memória.

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