Apostrophe

Apostrophe

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

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apostrophe

Printing & publishing; Publishing

The sign (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters in a word (whether pronounced or unpronounced), to indicate the possessive case, or to indicate plurals of ...

apostrophe

Literature; Literary techniques

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

apostrophe

Literature; Poetry

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

apostrophe

Literature; General literature

An address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend. Apostrophe often provides a speaker the ...

apostrophe

Computer; Components; Software testing

The ’ character (publishing character).

summary

Literature; Literary techniques

A shortened version, containing only the most important points as a simple statement that ties together the main facts or ideas.

assonance

Literature; Literary techniques

Repetition of the same sound in words close to each other.

zeugma

Literature; Literary techniques

Two different words linked to a verb or an adjective which is strictly appropriate to only one of them.

tautology

Literature; Literary techniques

Repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence.

synecdoche

Literature; Literary techniques

Understanding one thing with another; the use of a part for the whole, or the whole for the part.

prolepsis

Literature; Literary techniques

The anticipation, in adjectives or nouns, of the result of the action of a verb; also, the positioning of a relative clause before its antecedent.

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