His prosody is based upon the numbers five and seven, a. From Wordnik.com. [Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan] Reference
Chinese prosody is a very difficult thing for an Occidental to understand. From Wordnik.com. [Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese] Reference
It seems like this whole discussion thread needs a lesson in prosody, mainly because everyone is getting them wrong. From Wordnik.com. [Barack’s Prosody Problem: A Guest Post - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
QUANTITY, the length of a syllable; established by convention in classical prosody; in English prosody very uncertain but always present. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
SPONDEE, a classical prosody a foot of two long syllables; in English prosody a foot of two 'long' or accented or stressed words or syllables. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
When I began the study of Latin prosody, I devised and explained to my professor a system of signs indicating the different meters and quantities. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of My Life] Reference
English prosody is regular and veiled, its natural beauties all melancholy; the clouds have shaped its hues, and the sound of waves its modulations. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from _Corinne_] Reference
(N. B: prosody is not quite the same thing as rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [well i don't know if i'm wrong because she's only just gone] Reference
This pitch-and-rhythm variation, known as prosody, conveys emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American] Reference
These modulations, also referred to as prosody, add emotional significance to a verbal message thereby increasing its persuasive power. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Not being musical, I had to look up the word "prosody" as well. From Wordnik.com. [20 Questions with SciFi Songster John Anealio] Reference
Emotional expression is referred to as prosody. From Wordnik.com. [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference
Mooted questions in English prosody. From Wordnik.com. [The University of Virginia Record] Reference
It may have another name, but that's what I recall from prosody. From Wordnik.com. [Anti-Obama Fury Spills Over Into Down-Ticket Contests: "Bomb Obama"] Reference
In classical prosody syllables were regarded by convention as either. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
They were for him, among other things, almost a question of prosody. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
The names are borrowed, not quite felicitously, from classical prosody. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
RUDIN: Mike Huckabee does have a prosody (ph) to say whatever he thinks. From Wordnik.com. [McChrystal Resigns, Obama Names Petraeus] Reference
The libretto's prosody thus leans toward pronouncement rather than interaction. From Wordnik.com. [Manhattan Project: New Staging] Reference
It would be absurd to imagine a prosody which was independent of its own materials. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
In terms of prosody, the women poets preferred free verse to the traditional poetic forms. From Wordnik.com. [Yiddish: Women's Poetry.] Reference
The prosody and the rhetorical furniture of the poems might prevent that misinterpretation. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
In the same way as with the prosody and vocabulary, these changes were effected by degrees. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
This is not an era that embraces flower power or spontaneous bop prosody in any cosmic sense. From Wordnik.com. [Travis Nichols: Howl on the Red Carpet] Reference
There is another circumstance which tends to make modern rules of prosody necessarily negative. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
In fact, Morrison's fluttering, anxious prosody resembles Graham's darting graphs of consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry: What Does It Accomplish?] Reference
Kaluza, has shown that it is made up of three fragments of different origin, prosody, and language. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
However lax he might be about early rising and the prosody of Vergil, he was tireless in tinkering. From Wordnik.com. [Babbit] Reference
"Manuel des Pechiez," not without an inkling that his grammar and prosody might give cause for laughter. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
DISTICH, couplet; usually in classical prosody the elegiac couplet of a hexameter and a pentameter, 162. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
His verse, too, is the verse of the new literature, formed by a compromise between the old and the new prosody. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
It is an established phenomenon in Sanskrit and Persian prosody, in Arabic, in Chinese, in Celtic, in Icelandic. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
They have tried to build up a whole system of prosody sometimes on a foundation of stress alone, sometimes of time alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Grammar, prosody, mythology, astronomy and philosophy were studied, and great attention was given to the study of medicine. From Wordnik.com. [Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine] Reference
The difference is purely negative; I have bound myself to avoid certain positions forbidden by the laws of ancient prosody. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
They taught him the rules of prosody and the exercises proper to overcome the mere mechanical difficulties of versification. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
ARSIS, a confusing term sometimes borrowed from classical prosody for the stressed element of a foot; the unstressed element is called. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
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