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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
Before you put in the order, send the wife a note explaining that you just realized that the apostrophe is in the wrong place and confirm that you, fortunately, caught it before it went to the printers.
Edging in, it took nearly a minute before I could see the fungus at the center of all the fuss, a tiny ocher apostrophe hovering above the wet underbrush.
Then, someone insisted that was wrong, so she taped over the “e” and added an apostrophe.
That means you can spell a word like S’MORES, which involves an apostrophe, for example.
Ruderman, citing family reasons, eventually returned, and Osberg, Larry Platt and his apostrophe were unceremoniously removed.
The no-apostrophe rule has been reaffirmed five times, yet punctuationists fight on.
Jennifer Runyon, one of the name committee's three staffers, says: "We don't debate the apostrophe."
Before she reached the house, Gouvernail had lighted a fresh cigar and ended his apostrophe to the night.
Apostrophe usage is not consistent in the text as in using both dont and dont.
In truth, there was good ground for his sorrowful apostrophe, for the scene was very painful to a high-minded witness.
It intentionally begins with an apostrophe, not an unmatched single quotation mark, and was left as originally printed.
S—A—R—, and so on, the thing ran, but the whole legend was complete before that apostrophe started into its place.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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