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| 1-8 of 8Apostrophe flashcard sets | |||
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| # | Title | Terms | Date |
| 1 | Apostrophes: Possession or Contraction?by msbarnett | 10 terms | March 5, 2008 |
| 2 | Commas and Apostropheysby Drewmoie14 | 2 terms | May 6, 2009 |
| 3 | CCDS 8th grade exam vocab (letters with apostrophes have accents)by duncanrule | 125 terms | December 10, 2008 |
| 4 | easy ds and es, no apostrophes, dashesby hanhan | 20 terms | February 20, 2008 |
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| 5 | Apostrophesby nramos | 19 terms | October 1, 2008 |
| 6 | Apostrophes for Noun Quizby pdsvocabulary | 21 terms | November 20, 2008 |
| 7 | 7-1 HMS apostrophesby cynthiabell | 12 terms | November 19, 2008 |
| 8 | Comma & Apostrophe by caseystocks | 8 terms | May 24, 2008 |
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| apostrophe definitions | |||
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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | address to an absent or imaginary person | 41 sets | |
| 2 | a technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent. | 33 sets | |
| 3 | addressing something nonhuman as if it were human | 21 sets | |
| 4 | someone absent, dead, or imagianary, or an abstraction, is being addressed as if it could reply | 17 sets | |
| 5 | ' | 13 sets | |
| 6 | directly addressing an inanimate object or dead person | 13 sets | |
| 7 | a figure of speech in which someone absent or dead or something nonhuman is addressed as if it were alive and present and could reply | 11 sets | |
| 8 | a sudden turn from the general audience to address a specific group or person or personified abstraction absent or present | 11 sets | |
| 9 | a figure of speech in which an absent person or personified object is addressed by a speaker | 11 sets | |
| 10 | a figure of speech wherein the speaker speaks directly to something nonhuman | 9 sets | |
| 11 | a figure of speech wherein the speaker talks directly to something that is nonhuman. | 9 sets | |
| 12 | a locution that addresses a person or personified thing not present | 9 sets | |
| 13 | a technique by which a writer addresses an innimate obkect, an idea, or a person who is either dead or absent. | 8 sets | |
| 14 | a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea | 8 sets | |
| 15 | a locution that addresses a person or personified thing not present. | 8 sets | |
| 16 | when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed | 7 sets | |
| 17 | when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an absent person, inanimate object, or abstract quality or idea | 7 sets | |
| 18 | direct address, usually to someone or something that is not present | 7 sets | |
| 19 | the mark (') used to indicate the omission of one or more letters from a printed word | 7 sets | |
| 20 | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or personified abstraction, such as liberty or love. the effect may add familiarity or emotional intensity. | 7 sets | |
| 21 | when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed. | 6 sets | |
| 22 | an address or invocation to something inanimate | 6 sets | |
| 23 | a poem addressed to an absent person or thing | 6 sets | |
| 24 | a technique by which a writer address an inanimate object, an idea, or a person who is either ded or absent. | 6 sets | |
| 25 | the addressing of a usually absent person or a usually personified thing rhetorically | 5 sets | |
| 26 | a technique by which a writer adresses an inanimate object, idea, or a person who is either dead or absent | 5 sets | |
| 27 | addressing someone or something, usually not present, as though present | 5 sets | |
| 28 | type of soliloquy where nature is addressed as though human | 5 sets | |
| 29 | an address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend. apostrophe often provides a speaker the opportunity to think aloud. | 5 sets | |
| 30 | a figure of speech that directly addresses an absent or imaginary person or a personified abstraction | 4 sets | |
| 31 | a figure of speech in which one directly addresses an absent or imaginary person, or some abstraction | 4 sets | |
| 32 | when the writer or speaker of a poem addresses someone or something that cannot answer back. | 4 sets | |
| 33 | figure of speech in which the speaker addreses an abstract idea, an inanimate object, or a person who is not present | 4 sets | |
| 34 | talking to an idea, emotion, person, ect. that is not present. ex. prayer | 4 sets | |
| 35 | the direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction | 4 sets | |
| 36 | addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if it were alive and present and could reply | 4 sets | |
| 37 | a digression in the form of an address to someone not present, or to a personified object or idea, as "o death, where is thy sting?" | 4 sets | |
| 38 | absent or dead person, abstract quality, or something inanimate or nonhuman is addressed directly | 4 sets | |
| 39 | someone absent, dead, or imaginary, or an abstraction, is being addressed as if it could reply | 4 sets | |
| 40 | an address, either to someone who is absent and therefore cannot hear the speaker or to something nonhuman that cannot comprehend | 4 sets | |