Syncope
Syncope is the deletion of a syllable or letter from the middle of a word. “Let's make us med'cines of our great revenge.” Macbeth, 4.3.252. See aphaearsis, the deletion of an unstressed initial vowel at the end of a word. and apocope, the deletion of a syllable or letter from the end of a word.
Quotes including the Figure of Speech Syncope
The King is full of grace and fair regard
Read the QuoteBishop Of Canterbury
The King is full of grace and fair regard.
Bishop Of Ely
And a true lover of the holy Church.
Bishop of Canterbury
The courses of his youth promised it not.
The breath no sooner left his father’s body
But that his wildness, mortified in him,
Seemed to die too.
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Thrift, thrift, Horatio
Read the QuoteHamlet
Thrift, thrift, Horatio.Epizeuxis The funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.Alliteration
Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven
Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio!
My father—methinks I see my father.
He was a man. Take him for all in all,
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Gracious England hath Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men
Read the QuoteMalcolm
Gracious England hath
Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men;
An older and a better soldier none
That Christendom gives out.
Ross
Would I could answer
This comfort with the like. But I have words
That would be howled out in the desert air,
Where hearing should not latch them.
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