All apostrophe synonyms

noun apostrophe

• footnote — an explanatory or documenting note or comment at the bottom of a page, referring to a specific part of the text on the page.
• detour — If you make a detour on a journey, you go by a route which is not the shortest way, because you want to avoid something such as a traffic jam, or because there is something you want to do on the way.
• deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
• divergency — divergence; deviation.
• tangent — in immediate physical contact; touching.
• irrelevancy — irrelevance.
• difference — the state or relation of being different; dissimilarity: There is a great difference between the two.
• incident — an individual occurrence or event.
• divergence — the act, fact, or amount of diverging: a divergence in opinion.
• aside — If you move something aside, you move it to one side of you.
• note — a brief record of something written down to assist the memory or for future reference.
• diversion — the act of diverting or turning aside, as from a course or purpose: a diversion of industry into the war effort.
• variation — the act, process, or accident of varying in condition, character, or degree: Prices are subject to variation.
• parenthesis — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
• divagation — to wander; stray.
• departure — Departure or a departure is the act of going away from somewhere.
• wandering — moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
• drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
• deflection — The deflection of something means making it change direction.
• irony — the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend.
• metaphor — a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance, as in “A mighty fortress is our God.”. Compare mixed metaphor, simile (def 1).
• ornament — an accessory, article, or detail used to beautify the appearance of something to which it is added or of which it is a part: architectural ornaments.
• parable — a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson.
• paradox — a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
• parallel — parallel processing
• personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
• rhetoric — (in writing or speech) the undue use of exaggeration or display; bombast.
• sarcasm — harsh or bitter derision or irony.
• satire — the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.
• simile — a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”. Compare metaphor.
• analogue — If one thing is an analogue of another, it is similar in some way.
• understatement — the act or an instance of understating, or representing in a weak or restrained way that is not borne out by the facts: The journalist wrote that the earthquake had caused some damage. This turned out to be a massive understatement of the devastation.
• adumbration — to produce a faint image or resemblance of; to outline or sketch.
• alliteration — Alliteration is the use in speech or writing of several words close together which all begin with the same letter or sound.
• anaphora — the use of a word such as a pronoun that has the same reference as a word previously used in the same discourse. In the sentence John wrote the essay in the library but Peter did it at home, both did and it are examples of anaphora
• antistrophe — the second of two movements made by a chorus during the performance of a choral ode
• aposiopesis — the device of suddenly breaking off in the middle of a sentence as if unwilling to continue
• asyndeton — the omission of a conjunction between the parts of a sentence
• echoism — onomatopoeia.
• litotes — understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”.
• malapropism — an act or habit of misusing words ridiculously, especially by the confusion of words that are similar in sound.
• metonymy — a figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part, as “scepter” for “sovereignty,” or “the bottle” for “strong drink,” or “count heads (or noses)” for “count people.”.
• onomatopoeia — the formation of a word, as cuckoo, meow, honk, or boom, by imitation of a sound made by or associated with its referent.
• oxymoron — a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”.
• synecdoche — a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man.
• trope — Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
• tropology — the use of figurative language in speech or writing.
• turn of phrase — expression, wording
• interior monologue — Literature. a form of stream-of-consciousness writing that represents the inner thoughts of a character.
• free association — the uncensored expression of the ideas, impressions, etc., passing through the mind of the analysand, a technique used to facilitate access to the unconscious.