| TOPHE | • TOPHE n. a rock made of fine volcanic detritus, also TOPH, TUFA. |
| STROPHE | • strophe n. (Prosody) A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other. • strophe n. (Prosody) The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage. • strophe n. (Prosody) A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based. |
| ANASTROPHE | • anastrophe n. (Rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence. • ANASTROPHE n. an inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect e.g. 'To market went she'. |
| APOSTROPHE | • apostrophe n. (Orthography) The text character ’, which serves as a punctuation mark in various languages and as a… • apostrophe n. (Rhetoric) A sudden exclamatory piece of dialogue addressed to someone or something, especially absent. • APOSTROPHE n. the addressing of a personified thing rhetorically. |
| EPISTROPHE | • epistrophe n. (Rhetoric) The repetition of the same word or words at the end of successive phrases, clauses or sentences. • EPISTROPHE n. the ending of successive clauses with the same word e.g. 'government of the people, by the people, for the people'. |
| LIMITROPHE | • limitrophe adj. Border, frontier; being or existing along a border or frontier. • limitrophe n. A border state or area. • LIMITROPHE adj. near the frontier or border. |
| PHILOSOPHE | • philosophe n. Any of the leading philosophers or intellectuals of the 18th-century French Enlightenment. • philosophe n. (Derogatory) An incompetent philosopher; a philosophaster. • PHILOSOPHE n. (French) a philosopher. |
| ANTISTROPHE | • antistrophe n. In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or… • antistrophe n. The lines of this part of the choral song. • antistrophe n. (Rhetoric) The repetition of words in an inverse order. |
| CATASTROPHE | • catastrophe n. Any large and disastrous event of great significance. • catastrophe n. (Insurance) A disaster beyond expectations. • catastrophe n. (Narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement. |
| HYPOSTROPHE | • hypostrophe n. (Medicine) The act of a patient turning himself or herself. • hypostrophe n. (Medicine) A relapse, or return of a disease. • hypostrophe n. (Rhetoric) The use of insertion or parenthesis. |
| MONOSTROPHE | • monostrophe n. A metrical composition having a single strophe. • MONOSTROPHE n. a poem in which all the stanzas or strophes are written in the same metre. |
| ECOCATASTROPHE | • ecocatastrophe n. An ecological catastrophe, especially a man-made disaster that affects the environment. • ECOCATASTROPHE n. a major destructive upset in the balance of nature esp. when caused by the action of humans. |