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  - 132 results

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Dialogue and Literature: Apostrophe, Auditors, and the Collapse of Romantic Discourse
Book by Michael Macovski; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Dialogue, Discourse Analysis, Literary, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism--Theory, Etc, English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism--Theory. Etc, Reader-Response Criticism, Romanticism--Great Britain
...the inscribing of apostrophe. Indeed, it would...such prosopopoetic figures discount the extancy...anything other than a figure -- as anything...prosopopoeia is a figure that plays on authentic...form in unmediated speech communion. These...nonreferentiality" 63 of figures like apostrophe, Bakhtin maintains...
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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
...the name and the aura from its article even if, as would have been the medieval practice, la and aura are elided into one apostrophe-less word. And so the reader is called upon to hear a difference that, in the end, can only be seen. It is then toward...
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Cicero's Caesarian Speeches: A Stylistic Commentary
Book by Harold C. Gotoff; University of North Carolina Press, 1993
Subjects: Caesar, Julius, Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Literary Style, Latin Language--Style, Rome--History--53-44 B.C--Sources, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Latin
...parallel and opposite. This Gorgianic figure is basic to bipartite construction...phrases or single words. aporia: a figure of speech in which the speaker claims to...28, an ; Lig. 30, taceo . apostrophe: dramatic direct address; see...
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Speech Criticism, the Development of Standards for Rhetorical Appraisal
Book by Lester Thonssen, A. Craig Baird; Ronald Press Co., 1948
Subjects: Elocution, Oratory, Speech
...Apophasis, or denial, is a Figure by which an Orator pretends...declares. Anacoenosis is a Figure by which the speaker applies...Anastrophe, or inversion, is a Figure by which we suspend our sense...begun with the same word. Apostrophe is a Figure in which we interrupt...
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Powers of Expression, Expressions of Power: Speech Presentation and Latin Literature
Book by Andrew Laird; Oxford University, 1999
Subjects: Language And Culture--Rome, Latin Language, Colloquial, Latin Literature--History And Criticism, Oral Communication In Literature, Power (Social Sciences) In Literature, Rhetoric, Ancient, Rome--In Literature, Speech In Literature
...generally recognized as a speech mode--was never specially...11-12 A rhetorical figure which the Greeks call...is itself part of a speech in DD helps my case...condemnation of Lucans apostrophe in the wake of Haskins...interesting observations on apostrophe in Latin epic.
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journal articles on: Apostrophe Figure of Speech  - 190 results

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Apostrophe in Life and in Romantic Art: Everyday Discourse, Overhearing, and Poetic Address
Journal article by Alan Richardson; Style, Vol. 36, 2002
Subjects: Art, Literary criticism, Rhetoric
...Rhetorical figures for Reid...utterances. Apostrophe exemplifies...everyday speech, and the...within the figure of apostrophe...the term "apostrophe" to cover...All other apostrophes are regrouped...the related figure prosopopoeia...Blair defines apostrophe: It is an...both these figures are sometimes called apostrophes. However...
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Narrative Apostrophe: Reading, Rhetoric, Resistance in Michel Butor's la Modification and Julio Cortazar's "graffiti"
Journal article by Irene Kacandes; Style, Vol. 28, 1994
Subjects: Butor, Michel, Cortazar, Julio, Literary criticism, Novels, Short stories
...and I in turn draw on the figure of "apostrophe," used...most markedly from other figures, which, like rhetoric...communicative circuit on which the figure tropes. Communication theory...will not. Covertly, an apostrophe is meant to provoke response...say, the convention of apostrophe is to differentiate between...put it yet another way, apostrophes are messages uttered with...
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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
...intensifying the accents of ordinary speech, particularly the accents...classifies as the exercitive speech acts of warning, advising...Rossetti is able through these speech acts to perform a voice that...refers to as "the vocative of apostrophe" (p. 142), its resistance...
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The "to Be, or Not to Be" Speech: Evidence, Conventional Wisdom, and the Editing of Hamlet
Journal article by James Hirsh; Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, Vol. 23, 2010
...other character, represented speeches (rather than interior monologues...A character could direct a speech to the hearing of one or more...Hamlet, and each of those speeches (Helenas, Iagos, and Edmunds...similarities to the "To be" speech, as indicated above. In...supposedly sincere "To be" speech. (20) Hamlet has been sentimentalized...need not bother trying to figure out why his "To be" speech...
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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.
...rejection, into the pointed closing of this speech: "Come to the tent again." These five...even begins, Pepita makes a powerful figure for the lyric as empty promise, ruined...of available lyric space. The haunting figure of Brookss "Pepita," the absent and...
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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
...test administrator uses plastic animal figures to determine the childs understanding...from Selma or Macon will be able to figure out from the context and from common...For example, the use of possessive apostrophe-/s/ is sometimes mistaken for plural...applied linguist who is professor of speech communication and language education...
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Automated Essay Evaluation: the Criterion Online Writing Service
Magazine article by Jill Burstein, Martin Chodorow, Claudia Leacock; AI Magazine, Vol. 25, Fall 2004
Subjects: Artificial intelligence, Educational evaluation, Essays, Grammar, Online instruction
...sequences of adjacent word and part-of-speech pairs called bigrams. The system then...the corpus is tagged with its part of speech using a version of the MXPOST (Ratnaparkhi 1996) part-of-speech tagger that has been trained on student...
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Day Child/night Child
Magazine article by Lenore Terr; Family Therapy Networker, Vol. 18, July 1994
...a nap, she said in her Kempe benefit speech. The idea of general anesthesia was unbearable...however, three days after Marilyns speech. On May 11, 1991, Fawn Germer, of...the year that followed her Kempe benefit speech, published in the Rocky Mountain News...
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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
...through his investigation of speech. Words and fables became finally...Incarnate," Ahab being an Osiris figure intent on destroying the evil...accompanying stage directions and speech tags. To return to the lexicographical...in the book is in Ishmaels apostrophe to the spouting whale, ironically...
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A Greyer Shade of Pale: Nobody Would Be Surprised If One of the Party Leaders Were to Propose a Traffic-Cones Hotline. in This Campaign, It Seems, Everyone's about to Become a John Majorite
Magazine article by John Harris; New Statesman, Vol. 134, April 11, 2005
Subjects: Electioneering--Evaluation, Elections--Evaluation, Political campaigns--Evaluation
...much-maligned 1993 speech, in which he bowdlerised...any age," went his speech to that years Tory conference...socialism.") In the same speech, he spoke of "making...about the placing of the apostrophe in his Citizens Charter...among swing voters, the figure was 67 per cent. In...
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newspaper articles on: Apostrophe Figure of Speech  - 2 results

 
 
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Wall of Historic Oversight
Newspaper article by Arnold Beichman; The Washington Times, October 13, 1999
Subjects: Morris, Edmund, Reagan, Ronald
...these words, a dramatic apostrophe, on June 12, 1987 at...President Reagans 30-minute speech, the wall was no more...hunters. But to make that speech, President Reagan had...called President Reagans speech "the most patriotic...yahoo, this cartoon figure, have to win in defiance...
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A Leader Who Listens to Every Bady; SPECIAL REPORT
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), March 22, 2009
Subjects: Axelrod, David, Obama, Michelle, White House Press Corps--Reports
...dresses - and, of course, she has a figure that most women couldnt even strive for...blessed by Mr Axelrod. He reviews every speech, studies every major policy position...reporters. He said he used to insert an apostrophe before the O of Obama and to claim Barack...


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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 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...
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Figure of Speech
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FIGURE OF SPEECH intentional departure from straight-forward, literal use of language...or freshness of expression. See separate articles on antithesis ; apostrophe ; conceit ; hyperbole ; irony ; litotes ; metaphor ; metonymy ; paradox...
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Personification
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PERSONIFICATION figure of speech in which inanimate objects or abstract ideas are endowed with human...personification the "pathetic fallacy." See also allegory ; apostrophe ; metonymy . ____________________ Copyright...


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