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An apostrophe is an exclamatory figure of speech. [1] It occurs when a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes absent from the scene. Often the addressee is a personified abstract quality or inanimate object.
Apostrophe – a figure of speech consisting of a sudden turn in a text towards an exclamatory address to an imaginary person or a thing. Arete – virtue, excellence of character, qualities that would be inherent in a "natural leader", a component of ethos .
A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is a word or phrase that intentionally deviates from straightforward language use or literal meaning to produce a rhetorical or intensified effect (emotionally, aesthetically, intellectually, etc.). [1] [2] In the distinction between literal and figurative language, figures of
Articles relating to figures of speech, words or phrases that entail an intentional deviation from ordinary language use in order to produce a rhetorical effect. [ 1 ] Contents
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The easiest stylistic device to identify is a simile, signaled by the use of the words "like" or "as".A simile is a comparison used to attract the reader's attention and describe something in descriptive terms.
Examples: In the anaphora (eucharistic prayer), the prayer following the sanctus is said silently by the priest but its ending, the Words of Institution, are intoned in a loud voice. During most ectenias the priest silently recites a prayer up to its last line and then, when the ectenia has concluded, he chants aloud that last line.
An apostrophe is a punctuation mark, represented as ’ or '. Apostrophe may also refer to: Apostrophe (figure of speech), an address to a person or personified object not present; Apostrophe, a 1974 album by Frank Zappa "Apostrophe", a song by The Doubleclicks from the 2010 album Chainmail and Cello