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People-centered figures

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Pronunciation

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

Figurative expressions and imagery that highlight human beings as central themes.

Detailed Definition
People-centered figures are poetic metaphors or symbols derived from human actions, postures, or relationships rather than natural or abstract phenomena; these figures ground imagery in communal or bodily experience, fostering empathy and accessibility, and are common in oral traditions and socially engaged lyric poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
Figures of speech (like personification or apostrophe) that give human qualities or emotions to inanimate objects or abstract ideas; Metaphor or simile used primarily to describe human experience or relationships; Figures that rely on empathy and emotional connection for their effect; The use of synecdoche or metonymy to focus on human characteristics or actions.
Additional Notes
People-centered figures: Rhetorical devices, metaphors, or similes that focus on human behavior, relationships, or anatomy for their comparison or effect; grounds abstract ideas in the concrete human experience.
Also Known As
human-centered figures anthropocentric figures person-focused figures Anthropocentric imagery
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