Aposiopesis, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

Dramatic music build’s up the show
Then there is that line we all know
“Tune in next week”

Dramatic music leads into the time out
Anticipation you want to find out
Was it a fumble, did the ball pop out

The grinning stop before the punchline
Everyone in the audience
Knows what is on the comedian’s mind

An incomplete sentence
Of crescendo importance
Sudden stop makes the performance

Spooky cabin the stalker strikes
You’re taking a shower
In the dead of night

The sound in the living room
Gives you a fright
You jerk back the curtain

Pause………..It’s fluffy alright

Beethoven’s fifth
Dramatic end
Mic drop

In the ordinary
In the every day
Our body language

Completes what we say
Conveying emotion
Cutting off our words

Rhetorical threats
“Or else!” “Why you!”
When no other words will do

Implied, you tried
To speak of taboo
“He’s sensitive about

You know….hush hush”
We’re through.

Disclaim that insult
While you say it
“I’m not saying, I’m just saying”

Winks and nods, furrowed brow
Raised shout in voice
Is the how

Touching foreheads
In loving glance
Eyes deadlocked in romance

“I just want to say”
“I know, shut up and kiss me”.
(end)

In literature “aposiopesis” is a literary device used to break up a sentence, or end a sentence abruptly in the middle to create some sort of dramatic effect to accentuate an emotion of any kind, or to use for implication, that is designed to be understood by the reader without saying it.

In tv in movies you can think of it as a dramatic pause, or break when the characters know what is going on, or even when they pause and break character in a comedy. Or when the characters don’t complete their sentences but you the viewer know what they said even though they didn’t speak.

It is used to go in and out of ad breaks, when the scene builds up, and cuts to commercial leaving you wanting more. In sports the announces build up the game and talk about the rivals in the game, often in the opening while music plays in the background.

In music it can be dramatic pauses or an abrupt end.