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Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) A figure of speech by which the orator or writer suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of Paradise Lost..

Hypostrophe :: Hypostrophe (n.) The act of a patient turning himself.

Epode :: Epode (n.) The after song; the part of a lyric ode which follows the strophe and antistrophe, -- the ancient ode being divided into strophe, antistrophe, and epode..

Metre :: Metre (n.) Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter..

Catastrophic :: Catastrophic (a.) Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.

Epistrophe :: Epistrophe (n.) A figure in which successive clauses end with the same word or affirmation; e. g., Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I..

Antistrophic :: Antistrophic (a.) Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

Contraversion :: Contraversion (n.) A turning to the opposite side; antistrophe.

Apostrophize :: Apostrophize (p. pr. & vb. n.) To address by apostrophe.

Apostrophize :: Apostrophize (p. pr. & vb. n.) To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes..

Apostrophic :: Apostrophic (a.) Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical..

Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected..

Boustorphic :: Boustorphic (a.) Boustrophedonic.

Epanastrophe :: Epanastrophe (n.) Same as Anadiplosis.

Antistrophe :: Antistrophe (n.) In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song..

Catastrophe :: Catastrophe (n.) An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune..

Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis..

Strophiolate :: Strophic (a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes..

Monostrophic :: Monostrophic (a.) Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure.

Monostrophe :: Monostrophe (n.) A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe.

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