elisions
Syllables left out
Elisions are omissions—sounds, syllables, or passages left out.
In speech, elision drops unstressed sounds: "I'm" elides "I am," "don't" elides "do not." In poetry and song, elision compresses syllables to fit meter: "o'er" for "over," "e'en" for "even." More broadly, elisions are any deliberate omissions: The biography's elisions about his war years seemed suspicious.
Removal of content
- exclusionBeing barred from participation
- absenceState of not being
- gapUnfilled space between
- lacunaAbsent piece in sequence
erasure · removal · skip · suppression · censorship · redaction · abridgment · truncation
Unobstructed speech sound
- syllableUnit of pronunciation
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- schwaNeutral unstressed vowel
- glideMove with effortless continuity
linking · reduction · unstressed · slurring · contraction · dropping · weakening · assimilation
deletion
Removal of content
lacuna · erasure · removal · skip · suppression · censorship · redaction · abridgment · truncation · shortening
vowel
Unobstructed speech sound
- syllableUnit of pronunciation
- syncopationStressed unexpected beats
- schwaNeutral unstressed vowel
glide · linking · reduction · unstressed · slurring · contraction · dropping · weakening · assimilation · coalescence
enjambment
Unpaused verse continuation
apostrophe · e'er · ne'er · o'er · prosody · syllabic · metrical · compression · poesy · archaic
apostrophe
Mark showing ownership
they're · I'll · we've · didn't · wouldn't · shouldn't · doesn't · aren't · wasn't · haven't
- dialectsregional dialect, local dialect, patois, vernaculars, vernacular
elisionsadditions
Things joined to existing wholes
insertions · inclusions · expansions · interpolations · augmentations
elisionsarticulations
Joints or spoken expressions
enunciations · pronunciations · sounding out · vocalization · prostheses
elisionsdisclosures
Acts of revealing information
revelations · inclusions · exposures · acknowledgments · elaborations