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Exhaustive list

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Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A rhetorical device using an extensive catalog or enumeration to convey completeness

Detailed Definition
An exhaustive list in poetry is a cataloging technique where the poet enumerates items, sensations, or experiences in extensive detail to convey abundance, obsession, or totality; it can evoke Whitmanesque democracy, surreal accumulation, or mnemonic ritual, often building rhythmic momentum through repetition.
Example
Example in poetry:
Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” catalogs American types: “The carpenter dresses his plank… the married and unmarried children ride home… the lunatic is carried at last to the asylum”; Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” opens with an exhaustive list of “angel-headed hipsters”; Christopher Smart’s “Jubilate Agno” lists all creation praising God; Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” accumulates microaggressions in an exhaustive inventory of racial experience.
Additional Notes
An exhaustive list catalogs items, sensations, or ideas in detail; creates accumulation, overwhelm, or documentary effect—related to total inventory and crisis verse.
Also Known As
Complete catalog full enumeration comprehensive tally exhaustive roster Comprehensive inventory
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