Address & Argument
Correctio / Epanorthosis
Saying something and immediately revising it: 'a hundred — no, a thousand times.' The visible self-correction performs sincerity while keeping both versions on the record.
"Sixty Million and more" — Morrison's epigraph revising itself upward
Don't confuse it with Aposiopesis. Aposiopesis abandons the sentence; correctio revises it in flight and keeps going.
In the Reader — 4 excerpts
I am a sick man... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased. However, I know nothing at all about my disease, and do not know for certain what ails me.
No, that won't do, there's no getting away from the date: I was born in Doctor Narlikar's Nursing Home on August 15th, 1947.
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; …
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; …
Travels with
Devices that share a passage with correctio / epanorthosis most often — company reveals character.
The rest of the family
Rhetorical Question Apostrophe Invocation Aphorism Enthymeme Parrhesia Metabasis Amplificatio Aporia Enargeia / Vivid Specificity