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  2. Stichometry - Wikipedia

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    There are two kinds of stichometry: total stichometry is the practice of reporting the total number of lines in a work.Partial stichometry is the practice of including a series of numerals in the margins of a text, usually to mark every hundredth line.

  3. List of glossing abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    [optional in place of period] when the language of the gloss lacks a one-word translation, a phrase may be joined by underscores, e.g., Turkish çık-mak (come_out-INF) "to come out" With some authors, the reverse is also true, for a two-word phrase glossed with a single word. [2] [21] › >, →, :

  4. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Syncope: omission of parts of a word or phrase. Symploce: simultaneous use of anaphora and epistrophe: the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning and the end of successive clauses. Synchysis: words that are intentionally scattered to create perplexment. Synecdoche: referring to a part by its whole or vice versa.

  5. Line length - Wikipedia

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    The matrix is used by locating the number closest to the previously calculated LCA on the left column of the matrix and then scanning across the columns the number of characters that one would like to set in the text line. Once the number is located, the top row of the selected column will indicate the ideal line length. [13]

  6. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Climax – an arrangement of phrases or topics in increasing order, as with good, better, best. Colon – a rhetorical figure consisting of a clause that is grammatically, but not logically, complete. Colloquialism – a word or phrase that is not formal or literary, typically one used in ordinary or familiar conversation.

  7. Syllabic verse - Wikipedia

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    Line length: The line is defined by the number of syllables it contains. Hemistich length: All but the shortest lines are divided into part-lines ; each hemistich also contains a specific number of syllables, and ends with a word-boundary (this means that the hemistich cannot end in the middle of a word).

  8. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The English language has a number of words that denote specific or approximate quantities that are themselves not numbers. [1] Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles ...

  9. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Anaphora: the repetition of a word or words at the beginning of successive phrases, clauses, or lines to give emphasis. [1] Apostrophe: an address to a dead or absent person, or personification as if that person were present. Example: "O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman. [1] Blason: describes the physical attributes of a subject, usually ...