OMISSION FIGURES It is one of four subgroups of LITERARY FIGURES that make up the group of DICTION FIGURES. These are cases where some part of normal use is omitted in a sentence. The figures included in this group are 7 : ASÍNDETON , BRAQUILOGY , ELIPSIS , PARALIPSIS or PRETERITION , RETICENCE or APOSIOPESIS , SILEPSIS . Zeugma