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  2. Pronunciation of Ancient Greek in teaching - Wikipedia

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    The same changes affected the English pronunciation of Greek, which thus became further removed from both Ancient Greek and from the Greek that was pronounced in other western countries. A further peculiarity of the English pronunciation of Ancient Greek occurred as a result of the work of Isaac Vossius. He maintained in an anonymously ...

  3. Ancient Greek phonology - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek.This article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard Attic dialect of the fifth century BC, used by Plato and other Classical Greek writers, and touches on other dialects spoken at the same time or earlier.

  4. Help:IPA/Greek - Wikipedia

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    This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Greek on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Greek in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.

  5. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    Pleonasm can serve as a redundancy check; if a word is unknown, misunderstood, misheard, or if the medium of communication is poor—a static-filled radio transmission or sloppy handwriting—pleonastic phrases can help ensure that the meaning is communicated even if some of the words are lost.

  6. Koine Greek phonology - Wikipedia

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    The most significant changes during the Koine Greek period concerned vowels: these were the loss of vowel length distinction, the shift of the Ancient Greek system of pitch accent to a stress accent system, and the monophthongization of diphthongs (except αυ and ευ).

  7. Antanaclasis - Wikipedia

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    In rhetoric, antanaclasis (/ æ n t ə ˈ n æ k l ə s ɪ s, ˌ æ n t æ n ə ˈ k l æ s ɪ s /; from the Greek: ἀντανάκλασις, antanáklasis, meaning "reflection", [1] from ἀντί anti, "against", ἀνά ana, "up" and κλάσις klásis "breaking") is the literary trope in which a single word or phrase is repeated, but in two different senses. [2]

  8. Tmesis - Wikipedia

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    In its strictest sense, tmesis (/ ˈ t m iː s ɪ s, t ə ˈ m iː-/; plural tmeses / ˈ t m iː s iː s, t ə ˈ m iː-/; Ancient Greek: τμῆσις tmēsis – "a cutting" < τέμνω temnō, "I cut") is a word compound that is divided into two parts, with another word infixed between the parts, thus constituting a separate word compound.

  9. Polysyndeton - Wikipedia

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    Polysyndeton (from Ancient Greek πολύ poly "many" and συνδετόν syndeton "bound together with") [1] is the deliberate insertion of conjunctions into a sentence for the purpose of "slow[ing] up the rhythm of the prose" so as to produce "an impressively solemn note."