In 2012, after a series of clinical trials, the FDA approved the use of a medication called Truvada as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV. HIV PrEP is a six-point program that includes taking one pill once a day to prevent an uninfected person from becoming infected with HIV. Clinical trials have shown that when an uninfected person takes the medication consistently, his or her chance of becoming infected with HIV is greatly reduced.
APOSTROPHE-a figure of speech in which a person not present is addressed. ASSONANCE-is a close repetition of similar vowel sounds, usually in stressed syllables. ATMOSPHERE / MOOD-is the prevailing feeling that is created in a story or poem. CACOPHONY-Harsh sounds introduced for poetic effect-sometimes words that are difficult to pronounce. CLICHE-an overused expression that has lost its intended force or novelty.
Ut pictura poesis took on new meaning in the 19th Century when John Ruskin and the Romantics applied it to their conception of art, based not on imitation but expression. In Modern Painters, Ruskin made the distinction between painting and poetry, âBoth painting and speaking are modes of expression.