This can be used to condense time, or as a stylistic method to allow the reader to fill in the missing portions of the narrative with their imagination.
[2] Ellipsis is a common procedure in film narrative, where movement and action unnecessary to the telling of a story will often be removed by editing.
Instead, the character may be shown standing up from the chair and then in the next cut—normally viewed from a different angle, or with a cutaway shot in between, necessary to smooth over the gap—he would have already crossed the room and be over by the door.
[3] In this instance, however, the ellipsis—a match cut in film language—is filled by the metaphorical parallelism between the two objects, visually similar in shape and joined by a deep anthropological significance.
Important people or events would be omitted in his narration, leaving what has happened evident to audiences only through subsequent dialogue.