What's the name for this literary device?

Factual Questions
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Well, maybe it’s more of a “sitcom” device than a literary device, but I’ll ask anyways. The device I’m talking about, ubiquituous on television, is when a person says, “I’m not even going to MENTION [thing s/he isn’t going to mention].” For example, if Sally is insulting Bob, she may say, “That Bob, he’s fat, he stinks, he masturbates in public, and I’m not even going to MENTION his felching.”

So how about it? Is there some Greek word for this? Or at least some technical sounding English term?

Thanks,
Quix

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I’ll give you three:
apophasis
paraleipsis
praeteritio

From www.earnestspeakers.com/figuresofspeech.html

3

Cliché?

4

In the world of debating, I think this technique is known as apophasis.

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All these definitions are from Silva Rhetoricae Click on the link to see examples the use of these figures.

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When I learned it in Latin in my sophomore year of HS, I believe it was praeterition. I never saw it spelled, but on tests our teacher would ask us to identify X literary devices or whatnot. Ellipsis and praeterition were two I actively sought out because they’re so derned easy to find.