ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SPONDEE
From Old French spondée, from Latin spondēus, from Greek spondeios, from spondē a ritual libation; from the use of spondee in the music that characteristically accompanied such ceremonies.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPONDEE»
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spondee in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
spondee and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Essentials of Audiology
For this reason, SRT testing usually has an initial phase in which the level of the
spondee words is changed in relatively large steps to make a quick, rough
estimate of where the SRT is probably located. This ballpark estimate provides
an ...
2
Roeser's Audiology Desk Reference: A Guide to the Practice ...
Spanish spondee lists 795 Table 4.24. Spanish word discrimination lists 797
Table 4.25. Spondee word list — children 795 Table 4.26. Spondee word list —
Central Institute for the Deaf (CID) W-l 198 Table 4.27. Synthetic sentences 799 ...
3
Shakespeare's Metrical Art
SPONDEE-PYRRHIC Not a common figure, but it occurs: Poor passenger, | pass
now thereby I did (20:9) Copartner of | the riches of that sight (48:6) Most of the
examples listed above exhibit their patterns in phrases somewhat isolated from ...
In theory there are three dissyllabic feet possible in addition to the iamb (x/, an
unstressed followed by a stressed syllable) : the spondee (//, two stressed
syllables), the pyrrhic (xx, two unstressed syllables), and the trochee (/x, a
stressed ...
William Bridges Hunter, 1980
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review
A Spondee is sometimes found in the fifth place. A Dactyl is also (though very
rarely) to be found, in the sixth place as, At tuba Urribilem procul txcitat borrida. IL
The Pentameter, or Elegiack verse consists of five feet, Dactyls, or Spondees, ...
Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, 1808
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Anglo-Latin Literature, 600-899
The hexameter contains six feet, each of which must be either a dactyl (trisyllabic)
or a spondee (bisyllabic), except for the sixth foot, which is invariably bisyllabic (
either a spondee or a trochee).17 In theory, then, this allows a possibility of ...
7
Strict Metrical Tradition: Variations in the Literary Iambic ...
Combinations of a spondee (/ /) with a radical variation Choriamb + Spondee /
u u / / / Turned tow'rds the sun then setting, while that staff £xl5.8 [4o] A slight
break after the choriamb leans toward setting up the spondee as an isolated
spondee.
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The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review
the rest Dactyls, or Spondees, as best suits the fancy of the poet, or his subject. A
Spondee is sometimes found in the fifth place. A Dactyl is also (though very rarely
) to be found, in the lixtb place as, At tuba terribilem procul excitat borrtda.
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The Cyclopædia: Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, ...
The Archilochian trimeter catalectic, which in the first lace has an iambus or
spondee, in the second an iambus, in the third a spondee, in the fourth and fifth
an iambus, with a common syllable ; thus, caitprfli.-nas . Z -qi'1e sic-.nis.-Hor.
A low-verbal version of the test is the Four Choice Spondee subtest that includes
four words represented by pictures or objects. Each word is presented three
times in random order. The words commonly used are "baseball," "hot dog," ...
Jerry L. Northern, Marion P. Downs, 2002
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPONDEE»
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spondee is used in the context of the following news items.
Matmos – A Chance To Cut Is A Chance To Cure
Terminologie mediche sui beats marcatamente Funky di “Spondee”e risposte agli impulsi elettrici della pelle nella pratica dell'agopuntura di “Ur tchun tan tse qi” ... «Rocklab.it, Jul 15»
What corporate leaders can learn from the Australian Defence Force
Companies need to be more active in their attitude of engagement when it comes to developing the sponsor/spondee relationship. If you take an example of one ... «Women's Agenda, Jun 15»
Against the Barricades
On the “Northern liberal” response to the “overtones” of “Black Power,” she writes: “A mob chanting anything, and particularly a spondee followed by an ... «The Nation., May 15»
Oběti domácího násilí volají víc. Linka je nově zdarma
Oběti domácího násilí většinou ve Spondee žádají psychologickou podporu, ale také pomoc sociální pracovnice. Na místo může nově vyrazit i právník. «Brněnský deník, Mar 15»
Philip Levine, a Poet of Grit, Sweat and Labor, Dies at 87
It was a metrically auspicious birth date — the spondee “ONE, TEN” resounding like slaps on a baby's bottom, the anapest “twenty-EIGHT” hurtling toward the ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
Poem of the week: Lament for Stinie Morrison by Kit Wright
“Canyons,” for example, suggests more than geology: the trochee that's nearly a spondee seems to contain every sort of abyss from which an immigrant might ... «The Guardian, Oct 14»
'Carpe Diem' in 46 Immortal Lines
The line ends with a spondee, two stressed feet back to back, which has the effect of slowing the reader—a classic illustration of meter reinforcing meaning. «Wall Street Journal, Jul 14»
80 years after he walked across Europe, a travel writer's final volume
... best word I had ever heard for irretrievable gloom: zbucium, pronounced zboochoum, a desperate spondee of utter dejection, those Moldowallachian blues. «Concord Monitor, Mar 14»
The World's Greatest Travel Writer and His First Journey
... a desperate spondee of utter dejection, those Moldowallachian blues.” The Broken Road positively drips with exotic names, ethnic designations, and obscure ... «Slate Magazine, Mar 14»
What's Your Mindless Escape Of Choice (One That Doesn't Involve …
OR How Spondee Lets Me · Fun · READERS' CHOICE: Do Your Pets Ever Throw Shade? OR How Spondee Lets Me Know I'm Disappointing. Come partake of ... «xoJane, Sep 13»
