Apostrophe vs. Strophe — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Apostrophe and Strophe
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Apostrophe
The apostrophe (' or ’) is a punctuation mark, and sometimes a diacritical mark, in languages that use the Latin alphabet and some other alphabets. In English, it is used for four purposes: The marking of the omission of one or more letters, e.g.
Strophe
A strophe () is a poetic term originally referring to the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode. The term has been extended to also mean a structural division of a poem containing stanzas of varying line length.
Apostrophe
The superscript sign ( ' ), usually used to indicate the omission of a letter or letters from a word, the possessive case, or the plurals of numbers, letters, and abbreviations.
Strophe
The first of a pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.
Apostrophe
The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.
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Strophe
A stanza containing irregular lines.
Apostrophe
(orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a diacritical mark in certain rare contexts.
Strophe
The first division of the triad constituting a section of a Pindaric ode.
Apostrophe
(rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent.
Strophe
The first turning movement of the chorus from one side of the orchestra to the other in classical Greek drama.
Apostrophe
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."
Strophe
The part of a choral ode sung while this movement is executed.
Apostrophe
The contraction of a word by the omission of a letter or letters, which omission is marked by the character ['] placed where the letter or letters would have been; as, call'd for called.
Strophe
(prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
Apostrophe
The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.
Strophe
(prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage.
Apostrophe
Address to an absent or imaginary person
Strophe
(prosody) A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.
Apostrophe
The mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
Strophe
In Greek choruses and dances, the movement of the chorus while turning from the right to the left of the orchestra; hence, the strain, or part of the choral ode, sung during this movement. Also sometimes used of a stanza of modern verse. See the Note under Antistrophe.
Strophe
One section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek drama
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