cataphasis: a kind of paralipsis in which one explicitly affirms the negative qualities that one then passes over.

apophasis: allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned, as in I will not bring up my opponent's questionable financial dealings.

paraleipsis: pretended or apparent omission by which a speaker artfully pretends to pass by what he really mentions; as, for example, if an orator should say, I do not speak of my adversary's scandalous venality and rapacity, his brutal conduct...

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