APOSTROPHE, Figure of Speech

figure of speech in which an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though present. The term is derived from a Greek word meaning "a turning away," and this sense is maintained when a narrative or dramatic thread is broken in order to digress by speaking directly to someone not there, e.g., "Envy, be silent and attend!"—Alexander Pope, "On a Certain Lady at Court."

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books on: Apostrophe Figure of Speech  - 3200 results

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The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction: The Linguistic Representation of Speech and Consciousness
Book by Monika Fludernik; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Discourse Analysis, Literary, Discourse Analysis, Narrative, Fiction--Technique, Free Indirect Speech, Psychology In Literature
...reproduce as Figure 2 (p. 425...continuum of propositional and automatic speech modes and...rendering of a characters speech act, and he...empathetic uses as figure de pensee...evoke mimetic speech effects...basic paradox of representation...mimeticism. Figure 1 illustrates...
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Reading Shakespeare's Will: The Theology of Figure from Augustine to the Sonnets
Book by Lisa Freinkel; Columbia University Press, 2002
Subjects: Allegory, Augustine--Saint, Bishop Of Hippo--Influence, Christianity And Literature--England--History, Christianity And Other Religions--Judaism, Figures Of Speech, Luther, Martin--1483-1546--Influence, Petrarca, Francesco--1304-1374--Influence, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Merchant Of Venice, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Religion, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Sonnets, Sonnets, English--History And Criticism, Theology In Literature
...Theology in literature. 11. Figures of speech. 12. Allegory. I. Title...the product of a divine speech-act. Thus, freedom and...free man, the servitude of the one and the liberty...law. In contrast, the figure of Ishmael reveals Jewish...
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Psychology and the Poetics of Growth: Figurative Language in Psychology, Psychotherapy, and Education
Book by Jack M. Barlow, Harold J. Fine, Marilyn R. Pollio, Howard R. Pollio; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1977
Subjects: Children--Language, Figures Of Speech, Language Arts, Psycholinguistics, Psychotherapy
...usually found only among the animate. Apostrophe represents an even more special case of personification. It occurs when an absent...Periphrasis Synechdoche and periphrasis represent figures of speech which can be described best by the phrase...
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The Development of Shakespeare's Imagery
Book by W. H. Clemen; Methuen, 1951
Subjects: Figures Of Speech, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Literary Style
...figure. From one figure emanate the...concentration of action-interest...thirteen-line speech by Elizabeth...the first two apostrophes, "O God, O earth", the final apostrophe is added, "O...culmination. Of course, all this...conventional stylistic figures, by being suited...
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The Broken Compass: A Study of the Major Comedies of Ben Jonson
Book by Edward B. Partridge; Columbia University Press, 1958
Subjects: Fiction, Figures Of Speech, Jonson, Ben--1573?-1637
...rapid movement of Volpone s speech and, by making it more deliberate...shocking. These are large figures, as they should be, and extraordinarily...is violence in Strooke out of chaos and all darkenesse...is made more explicit in the apostrophe which follows. O, thou sonne...
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journal articles on: Apostrophe Figure of Speech  - 181 results

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Anecdotes of a Jar: The Dominion of Spatial Tropes in Recent Criticism of the Lyric
Journal article by Mark Jeffreys; Criticism, Vol. 40, 1998
Subjects: Figures of speech--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Lyric poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...conversation. (Letter to the author, 7 September 1996) Culler here conflates deixis with apostrophe per se, and he perpetuates the mystification of lyric discourse by apparently implying that lyric deixis cannot be comprehended by linguistic...
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Exercitive Speech Acts in the Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Journal article by Ernest Fontana; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 47, 2009
Subjects: Aspecta Medusa (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, English poets--Criticism and interpretation, Rossetti, Dante Gabriel--Criticism and interpretation, Speech acts (Linguistics)--Interpretation and construction, Speech acts (Linguistics)--Usage, The Choice (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation, The Church Porch (Poetry collection)--Criticism and interpretation
...directing. Rossetti is able through these speech acts to perform a voice that is both authoritative...270. (2) Jonathan Culler, The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction...what he refers to as "the vocative of apostrophe" (p. 142), its resistance to "narrative...
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The Politics and Media of Apostrophe in Hölderlin's Hyperion
Journal article by Sean Franzel; German Quarterly, Vol. 82, 2009
Subjects: French Revolution, Poetry, Speeches
...occur in figurai speeches that trace the...different modes of political, poetic...argue, that apostrophe becomes a central figure that organizes...conditioned by the figure of apostrophe. In this way...and political speech alike nonetheless...
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Sealed Eyes and Phantom Lovers: The First Line of "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
Journal article by M.D. Walhout; Wordsworth Circle, Vol. 39, 2008
Subjects: Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Wordsworth, William--Criticism and interpretation, Wordsworth, William--Works
...borrowed the sealing slumber figure. (7...common use until the middle of the 17th century, when...for example, Macbeths apostrophe to Night: <pre ... come...woes" employs the same figure of speech to introduce the same...
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Tropes of Revelation in Raphael's Transfiguration *
Journal article by Jodi Cranston; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 56, 2003
Subjects: Human figure in art--16th century AD, Human figure in art--Criticism and interpretation, Painting, Renaissance--16th century AD, Painting, Renaissance--Religious aspects, Raphael (Painter)--Criticism and interpretation, Renaissance painting--16th century AD, Renaissance painting--Religious aspects, Revelation--16th century AD, Revelation--Portrayals
...similar to that of the rhetorical figure of apostrophe, or a form of direct address...dimension attributed to the visual figure of apostrophe at least a half-century earlier...didactic paradigm. The visual figure of apostrophe only initiates the interpretative...
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magazine articles on: Apostrophe Figure of Speech  - 8 results

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Cultural Bias Undermines Assessment
Magazine article by Don Rubin; Personnel Journal, Vol. 71, May 1992
Subjects: Bias, Culture, English language, Human resource management, Languages, Performance appraisal, Skills, Speech, Tests, United States
...Selma or Macon will be able to figure out from the context and from...should one particular group of test-takers have to cope with...example, the use of possessive apostrophe-/s/ is sometimes mistaken for...linguist who is professor of speech communication and language education...
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Cosmic Chants
Magazine article by Matthew Gurewitsch; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 276, August 1995
Subjects: Composers--Criticism and interpretation, Operas--Criticism and interpretation, Orff, Carl--Criticism and interpretation
...two-and-a-half-minute apostrophe is always with us...on the soundtracks of movies--not to mention...Jackson and sports figures, who use "O Fortuna...monotone and rhythmic speech to speech without...In life he was a figure of consequence. After...
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Word Court
Magazine article by Barbara Wallraff; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 293, January 2004
Subjects: English language, English language--Analysis, English language--Usage, Etymology, Word (Linguistics), Word (Linguistics)--Analysis, Word (Linguistics)--Usage, Words--Analysis, Words--Usage
...alone, words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe." Its also true that all the major...and these give "noun" as its part of speech. But is it a word? In defining word...from ice cream) all pass muster. Go figure. Do you have a language question...
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Daniel Dennett Hunts the Snark
Magazine article by David B. Hart; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January 2007
Subjects: American writers--Works, Authors, American--Works, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Book), Dennett, Daniel C.--Works
...rational person and is moreover a figure cast in a decidedly heroic mould...if one sets out in pursuit of beasts as fantastic, elusive...resplendently asinine a habit of speech that it has the enchanting effect...answers." And this demented apostrophe occurs on the fifty-first page...
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"In the Beginning Was the Word ..." Whale "... the Letter H ..."
Magazine article by Gordon V. Boudreau; Melville Society Extracts, February 2002
Subjects: American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Language and languages--Etymology, Melville, Herman--Criticism and interpretation, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Whales--Portrayals
...the release of a stop consonant. 3. Any speech sound...followed by a puff of breath.... Latin aspirare, to breathe...aspiring" in the book is in Ishmaels apostrophe to the spouting whale, ironically, in...
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newspaper articles on: Apostrophe Figure of Speech  - 1 result

 
 
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Wall of Historic Oversight
Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, October 13, 1999
Subjects: Morris, Edmund, Reagan, Ronald
...spoke these words, a dramatic apostrophe, on June 12, 1987 at Berlins Brandenburg Gate, the line of demarcation between East and...President Reagans 30-minute speech, the wall was no more, it had...did this yahoo, this cartoon figure, have to win in defiance of...


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encyclopedia articles on: Apostrophe Figure of Speech  - 3 results

 
 
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Apostrophe , Figure of Speech
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
APOSTROPHE , figure of speech figure of speech in which an absent person, a personified inanimate...Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Figure of Speech
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FIGURE OF SPEECH intentional departure from straight-forward...See separate articles on antithesis ; apostrophe ; conceit ; hyperbole ; irony...University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved...
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Personification
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PERSONIFICATION figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstract...pathetic fallacy." See also allegory ; apostrophe ; metonymy...University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights...


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