10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SYNALOEPHA»
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synaloepha in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
synaloepha and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation for Literary Study
272) there seems to be a custom of safeguarding the verse which opens a work
against synaloepha: Verg. A. 1.1; G. 1.1; Eel. 1.1; Ov. Met. 1.1; Fast. 1.1-2 (where
for long stretches synaloepha is avoided anyway); Hor. Carm. 1.1.1; 3.1.1; Saec.
Heinrich Lausberg, David E. Orton, R. Dean Anderson, 1998
549-648) there are 125 regular hemistichs which do not involve hiatus, elision,
apocope, or synaloepha. Hiatus accounts for a further 46 regular hemistichs.
Synaloepha is possible at most in 20 of the remaining hemistichs.2 Apocope,
syncope ...
Carrión Santob de, Santob De Carrión, Ignacio González Llubera, 2011
3
From Phonology to Syntax: Pronominal Cliticization in ...
Here Otfrid refers to the Latin orthographical figure metaplasmus, which
describes the alteration in the form of a word for the sake of the meter. One type
of metaplasmus he discusses is synaloepha, which refers to the elision of the
final vowel ...
Katerina Somers Wicka, 2009
... instead of 0&6? mis, on the theory of the pronouns; in which case the two e's
must be made to coalesce, according to the figure synaloepha per crasm. Boon III
. I'. Vs. 24. The second *1) should -be changed to if. 27- Beoaoeiz. Synaaresis.
5
A New History of English Metre
In Boccaccio's endecasillabi synaloepha occurs 87 times in every 100 lines (of
which 34 are at the caesura), and in Petrarch's 121 times (45 at the caesura); see
Duffell 1991: 312–13. 19. W. W. Skeat made Child's hypothesis the new ...
6
Elements of Latin prosody and metre
Synaloepha affects not only a single syllable, but also two syllables sounded as
one by synseresis ; as, Virg. Slell'io; et lucifugis congesta cubilia blattis. Catul. Et
earum omnia adirem furibunda latibula. pronounced Stetl yet, omn yad.
7
The Works of John Dryden, Volume I: Poems, 1649-1680
Of some interest, too, is his way of dealing with elisions. Theoretically it was
considered undesirable that a word ending in a vowel should be followed,
without elision (synaloepha), by a word beginning with a vowel. In practice
nobody was ...
John Dryden, Edward Niles Hooker, Hugh Thomas Swedenberg, 1956
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The Works of Joh Dryden
Theoretically it was considered undesirable that a word ending in a vowel should
be followed, without elision (synaloepha), by a word beginning with a vowel. In
practice nobody was likely to be bothered by the opening of vowel upon vowel ...
(a) Synaloepha does not simply redefine a prior quadrisyllable word as trisyllabic
, or a trisyllabic word as disyllabic, etc., and never affects the setting of word
accent in the prior word, which is always accented (see §4 below) as if no ...
Titus Maccius Plautus, A. S. Gratwick, 1993
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Various English and Latin Poems, Translations, &c. preceded ...
There is a licence very seldom used in LatinPoetry, the omission of the
Synaloepha, which depends upon the rules of Greek Prosody; Exception to the'
rul'e “ Apostrophus est.” W.G.G. 153. “ Sed hoc non raro omittunt Grmcii ut
Homerus.
Richard BURNET (Master of the Grammar School at Bungay, Suffolk.), 1808
