Apostrophe

Apostrophe

A figure of speech in which an address is made to an absent person or a personified thing rhetorically.

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A sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present.

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A figure of speech in which an address is made to an absent person or a personified thing rhetorically.

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Literature; Poetry

A poetic form in which two characters chant alternate lines, couplets, or stanzas, in competition or debate with one another.

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Literature; Poetry

A metrical foot made up of two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, as in the word 'interrupt'.

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The Greek word for 'headless', applied to a metrical verse line that lacks the first syllable expected according to regular metre.

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Literature; Poetry

A Greek verse form using a four-line stanza in which the first two lines have eleven syllables each, the third nine, and the fourth ten.

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