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But in non-answering agreement with your puzzlement, for convenience of discussion here are some of the terms’ daftinitions™ laid out sidle by sidle (with a nother rudd hiring):

Apophasis
The rejection of several reasons why a thing should or should not be done and affirming a single one, considered most valid.
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/APOPHASIS.htm

Apophasis (noun)
Allusion to something by denying that it will be mentioned, as in I will not bring up my opponent's questionable financial dealings.
[Late Latin, from Greek, from apophanai, to say no : apo-, apo- + phanai, to say.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

Paralipsis
Stating and drawing attention to something in the very act of pretending to pass it over. A kind of irony.
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/PARALIPSIS.htm

Cataphasis
A kind of paralipsis in which one explicitly affirms the negative qualities that one then passes over.
Example: I will say nothing here of his fraudulent practices.
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/CATAPHASIS.htm

Affirmation
1. English equivalent of cataphasis
2. English equivalent of affirmatio a general figure of emphasis that describes when one states something as though it had been in dispute or in answer to a question, though it has not been.
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Redirect/AFFIRMATION.htm

Antiphrasis
Irony of one word, often derisively through patent contradiction. Also, a synonym for paralipsis (Quintilian).
Example - Referring to a tall person: "Now there's a midget for you"
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/ANTIPHRASIS.htm