What is an ellipse? Syntax figure known as Ellipse

 See Chico Buarque's music:

Daily Chico Buarque Every day she does everything the same shake me at six o'clock in the morning smile at me a punctual smile And kiss me with the mouth of mint Every day she says I'm supposed to take care of myself And these things that every woman says Says you're waiting for me for dinner And kiss me with the coffee mouth Every day I just think about being able to stop noon I just think about saying no Then I think about life to take And I shut up with the mouth of beans six in the afternoon as expected She picks it up and waits for me at the gate She says she's too crazy to kiss And kiss me with the mouth of passion Every night she tells me not to walk away midnight she swears eternal love And squeeze me so I almost suffocate And bites me with the mouth of dread Every day she does everything the same shake me at six o'clock in the morning smile at me a punctual smile And kiss me with the mouth of mint.

We note that the author uses the subject's omission in many verses of his composition:

- Me shakes at six o'clock in the morning
- Me smile a punctual smile
- And me kiss with the mouth of mint

- It says what it is waiting for me for dinner
- And me kiss with the coffee mouth

- Later I think in life to take
- And me callus with the bean mouth

- She picks me up wait at the gate
- It says what it is too crazy to kiss
- And me kiss with the mouth of passion

- And me squeeze for me to almost suffocate
- And me bite with the mouth of dread

However, we can infer from the context of the letter that the hidden subjects are represented by the people “She” and “I”, right? This stylistic resource is a figure of speech that takes place at the syntactical level (syntax figure) known as Ellipse, whose definition is as follows:

Ellipse: it is a figure of speech that consists in the omission of some term that can be understood by the context.

Ellipse may occur:

The) of subject:

Example:

The eyes are the windows to the world. witness everything that happens around.

What witnesses everything that happens around? - The eyes (elliptical subject).

B) of verb:

Example:

Two years ago I bought a car and now a house.
Note the omission of the verb I bought before its complement “a house”.

ç) gives conjunction integral what:

Example:

He proposed that we marry.

d) gives preposition"in" that starts direct objective prayers and nominal supplemental clauses:

Example:

I'm sure you will be approved.

and) of the preplacement that introduces certain deputies:

Example:

The girl, black hair, was beautiful and sweet.

NOTE: Zeugma is a kind of Ellipse which consists in omitting a term expressed in one of them in two or more statements.

Example:

I support Palmeiras; my mother, for Corinthians; my father, for Flamengo.

By Mariana Rigonatto
Graduated in Letters

Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/o-que-e/portugues/o-que-e-elipse.htm