Bill Kristol

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

What's that classical rhetorical device where you bring something up by saying you won't bring something up? E.g., you'd say that you can't endorse the striking but perhaps inappropriate things that @JamesCarville just said, thus giving a bit more publicity to what James said? — PolitiTweet.org

Bill Kristol @BillKristol

Apophasis, from Ancient Greek ἀπόφασις (apóphasis), from ἀπόφημι (apóphemi) 'to say no') is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up...The device is also called paralepsis or praeteritio. — PolitiTweet.org