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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Apostrophe

Britannica 11th

APOSTROPHE (Gr. intoarpo^. turning away; the final e being sounded), the name given to an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks off and addresses some one directly in the vocative. The same word (representing, through the Fre ...

Vol. 2, pp. 205-205 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Antistrophe

Britannica 11th

ANTISTROPHE, the portion of an ode which is sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east, in response to the strophe, which was sung from east to west. It is of the nature of a reply, and balances the effect of the strophe. Thus, in Gray's od

Vol. 2, pp. 146-146 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 34.29
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