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apostrophe
noun as in digression
noun as in figure of speech
Weak matches
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
noun as in irrelevancy
noun as in parenthesis
noun as in stream of consciousness
Example Sentences
“As their governess, the only ability of theirs that concerns me is their ability to make accurate use of the apostrophe,” she retorted.
He recently added an apostrophe to his first name, now stylized as “Tre’.”
No Apostrophes: North Yorkshire moved to phase out apostrophes from its street signs.
The change, part of the North Yorkshire Council’s move to phase out apostrophes from its street signs, has elicited dissent in Harrogate, a Victorian spa town in northern England.
A local authority has announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs to avoid problems with computer systems.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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