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  2. Sibilant - Wikipedia

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    With the hushing sibilants (occasionally termed shibilants), such as English [ʃ], [tʃ], [ʒ], and [dʒ], the tongue is flatter, and the resulting pitch lower. [2] [3] A broader category is stridents, which include more fricatives than sibilants such as uvulars. Sibilants are a higher pitched subset of the stridents. The English sibilants are:

  3. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men"). During the Renaissance, scholars meticulously enumerated and classified figures of speech.

  4. Literary consonance - Wikipedia

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    Another special case of consonance is sibilance, the use of several sibilant sounds such as /s/ and /ʃ/. An example is the verse from Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven": "And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain." (This example also contains assonance around the "ur" sound.)

  5. Voiceless alveolar fricative - Wikipedia

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    It occurs in Icelandic as well as an intervocalic and word-final allophone of English /t/ in dialects such as Hiberno-English and Scouse. The voiceless alveolar lateral fricative [ɬ] sounds like a voiceless, strongly articulated version of English l (somewhat like what the English cluster **hl would sound like) and is written as ll in Welsh.

  6. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  7. Stylistic device - Wikipedia

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    The second chapter gives meaning to the first, as it explains other events the character experienced and thus puts present events in context. In Khaled Hosseini 's The Kite Runner , the first short chapter occurs in the narrative's real-time; most of the remainder of the book is a flashback.

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  9. De-essing - Wikipedia

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    Male voices sibilance range in 3–6 kHz, while female voice's typically range in 6–8 kHz. [3] Apply an equalization filter to quiet the determined frequency band by −4 dB to −11 dB during ess-frequency time events. The rise and fall time of filter should be fast (less than 10 ms) in order to clip the sibilance-specific instances only. [4]