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nounone section of a lyric poem or choral ode in classical Greek dramatype of:part of:
Definition that contains strophe
- visitation any disaster or catastrophe
- inevitable accident a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
- vis major a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
- apostrophise use an apostrophe
- act of god a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
- antistrophe the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem
- survivor guilt a deep feeling of guilt often experienced by those who have survived some catastrophe that took the lives of many others; derives in part from a feeling that they did not do enough to save the others who perished and in part from feelings of being unworthy relative to those who died
- apostrophize use an apostrophe
- alcaic verse verse in the meter used in Greek and Latin poetry consisting of strophes of 4 tetrametric lines; reputedly invented by Alcaeus
- antistrophic of or relating to an antistrophe