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    Apostrophe
    [`] Apostrophe (`) is an album by Frank Zappa, his eighteenth, released on March 22, 1974 in both stereo and quadraphonic formats. An edited version of its lead-off track, "Don`t Eat the Yellow Snow", was Zappa`s first chart single, reaching position 86. Apostrophe (`) remains Zappa`s bigges...
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    Apostrophe
    [figure of speech] Apostrophe (Greek ἀποστροφή, apostrophé, "turning away"; the final e being sounded) is an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. In dramatic works and po...
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    Apostrophe
    According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the word comes ultimately from Greek ἡ ἀπόστροφος [προσῳδία] (hē apóstrophos [prosōidía], "[the accent of] `turning away`, or elision"), through Latin and French. The apostrophe is different from the closing single quotatio...
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    apostrophe
    an address to a dead or absent person or personification as if he or she were present.
    Found op http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_rpo/terminology.cfm#acatalectic
    
    
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    apostrophe
    
    1. address to an absent or imaginary person
    2. the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word
    
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    apostrophe
    apostrophe, figure of speech in which an absent person, a personified inanimate being, or an abstraction is addressed as though present. The term is derived from a Greek word meaning “a turning away,” and this sense is maintained when a narrative or dramatic thread is broken in order to ...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0804385.html
    
    
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    apostrophe
    apostrophe: see punctuation; abbreviation.
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0910340.html
    
    
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    Apostrophe
    The apostrophe is a rhetorical figure by which the orator changes the course of his speech, and makes a short impassioned address to one absent as if he were present, or to things without life and sense as if they had life and sense. The same term is also applied to a comma when used to contract a w...
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    apostrophe
    (grammar) Punctuation mark (') used in written English and some other languages. In English it serves primarily to indicate either a missing letter (mustn't for must not) or number ('47 for 1947), or gramma...
    Found op http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0006012.html
    
    
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    apostrophe
    1) A form of personafication in which the absent or dead are spoken to as if present. 2) Cat-o'-nine-tails feature 3) Certain punctuation mark 4) Punctuation mark 5) Rhetorical device
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/apostrophe/1
    
    

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