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She had never considered herself an especially devout woman. It was simply that she believed and had little trouble seeing God’s mind made manifest around her; He was present and removed at once, in air that became breath and the numbers and radii that tacked down the world. Her worship was for her small self and not Him. Similarly, she had never found herself called to pray, considering that she had been given all she needed and unconvinced there would be a voice who answered. It was the illness, the threat not of death but abandonment, had catalyzed her alteration. She had not been able to bear that she would be sent away, away from Jedediah most importantly, but also from her duty, her vocation, the self she had become at Mansion House and so she had been praying every moment she was awake, praying to God that she would get well and return to her previous life. And that Jedediah, unused to looking at her in this way, would not see.

 Where, when had she learned all the prayers that filled her mouth, that made a melody in her mind of the clamorous terror that possessed her? Her church was not given to elaborate invocation and her mother would have described the intricate strings of words Mary whispered to be showy and prideful but still, she must say them. There were fragments of the nuns’ novenas and rosaries, like pearls that had become unknotted and restrung and psalms Henry Hopkins had turned to his own use. And some were very simple appeals with the purity of a jay’s sharp cry—please and Oh God! and help me; these last were on her lips when she woke from sleep, from the dreams that beset her, when the fever rose and the pain she must conceal resumed prowling along her nerves, swiping a claw at her belly before coming to rest at the base of her skull as if the jaws of a lion were there, ready to snap shut and take off her head.

 There were hours when she felt she needn’t try so hard to seem well, the recovery Jed and Anne Hastings seemed sure she would make nearly hers; there was a return of clarity to her thought, vitality to her limbs and the rest she had refreshed her. She was able to take up her mathematics, the Gauss that was her old companion, the copies of Crelle her sister-in-law had sent to her from Berlin that Mary had impulsively packed in her carpetbag where most women would have brought another petticoat. She wrote letters to Annaliese and the Freedman’s Society and prepared a report to send to Miss Dix with the innovations she had made and a thorough tally of her successes and failures. If Jedediah came, she rejoiced to be able to talk with him in something like their old way, though she noticed he was careful not to say anything about his marriage, the equivocal state of their own attachment or anything pertaining to Charlotte Jenkins. Mary could not decide if it was because he was being a responsible physician sparing her the demands of an argument or acting like a little boy, trying to avoid anything that might make him unhappy.

But those times were briefer and less frequent than she wanted, than Jedediah seemed to expect and the rest she must disguise from him—the torturous dreams with their horrifying convolutions and grotesques, more disturbing the visions she had, waking and asleep, that followed her from night to day, her parents, Gustav, her sister Caroline who’d died in childbirth a few months after Gustav had died, no longer shadow but not flesh. There were voices that called her, Jedediah’s most often, as vivid as when he suffered the lack of the needle and cursed and begged her in the same breath, that keening sound he made when he wept for his mother, the fearful moaning that meant he thought he was lost and not worth the finding, the delighted, aroused gasp she had swallowed when she kissed him that would not give her any peace.

 It was terrifying not to know what was real and not to be able to ask. She must pause every time she heard a voice or saw someone sitting in the chair in the corner, a figure passing by the open doorway to peer inside and try to gauge the responses of those around her. When she heard Jedediah weeping or the baby crying for her, it took all her willpower not to call out I’m coming, love, not to push back the bed linens and hurry to the one who needed her. She could not control her expression entirely and Sister Isabella had taken to offering frequent reassurance when she observed what she thought was Mary startled by something ordinary like the sound of a book’s cover meeting the page, the muted pop of the uncorked bottle of medicine marring the quiet. There were few real visitors other than Jedediah and the women who nursed her; she would have welcomed the chaplain but none of them wished to risk his health and it was not seemly for Samuel to look in, though she missed his sensible, even temper and his gentle acuity. The new chief, Major McBurney, who she would have been relieved to be spared the sight of was strangely constant but fractured like a kaleidoscope—his pale face and his uneasy eyes, the light glinting off the polished buttons of his jacket, those long white hands clasped together too tightly or fidgeting like a spider’s legs, all appeared framed by the door jamb or just inside the room. He never spoke but she felt his regard like its own infection and she did not know why he would come so often when he had been so adamant she leave.

It seemed at times he would follow her into her dreams, to watch her there with that gaze that was half malevolent and half beseeching. When she woke to find Jedediah sitting beside her with the stillness that meant he was exhausted, the thermometer snug and familiar pressed against her and only her father across the room, the respite was so great she spoke without thinking,

 “I had strange dreams. Visions.”

 Jedediah had removed the thermometer and studied its result while she spoke, but she had surprised him she supposed, considering his tone when he asked “What sort of visions?’

She saw her father begin to recite and joined him as they had always done when she was well enough, the rhythm of the lines as comforting as the scent of leather-bound books and pipe-smoke that always clung to Papa, but the words would not come though she strove for them even as she tried to make Papa go. He was not needed now, not when Jedediah’s dark eyes watched her with a tender intensity. She tasted salt.

 “I knew it so well once,” she murmured and he made a sound like a sigh. She was not the Mary he wanted and she could not help disappointing him. Perhaps Major McBurney would insist if he knew, if Anne said or Jedediah. He had promised that day when he saved her, again and again, but there was a question in his eyes and she was afraid to ask which one it was, even more of the answer. She hardly recognized herself speaking, saying, “I know sick nurses are sometimes sent home but I don’t want that. I must stay here. You, you know-- Please?”

 Anne was a rustling sound, a collection of colors, a sense of opprobrium. Jedediah appeared to forget she was in the room with them when he stopped addressing her but Mary did not. Still, he had not answered her and the pause meant something she did not want to consider. He didn’t understand but she would try to make him.

 “I have nothing to return to. Without you, I can’t, oh don’t you see?”

 “Don’t worry, Mary. You will remain here under my care,” he said quickly but patiently. He lifted his hand as if he would lay it somewhere to soothe her but let it fall into his lap. Did he think, could he think she wouldn’t want his touch? She had embraced him and then pushed him away, she had castigated him and lied. She heard him, day and night, in her mind and without, his voice in the hallway, his tears, his accusations and his laughter. It must be clear between them.

 “When we argued… about smallpox… about that night,” she said, halting, unsure, wanting him to know without her needing to say how guilty she felt and how bereft, how much she loved him even though, even though…

 “Not now. We’ll talk about everything soon,” he said. Soon—an hour or a lifetime? She remember Anne was with them and that there might be other reasons he did not wish to talk. He had other responsibilities, his wife and his work, and she was not the former and only part of the latter. He leaned closer and gave her the thoughtful, serious smile she had fallen in love with, adding “And had I no obligations, I would stay with you all day and tend you and you alone.”

 What an image he painted! No other person interfering, not officious, capable Anne, nor Emma with her tentative hands, amiable Sister Isabella, only Jedediah beside her, holding the cup to her lips and saying “there you are, a little more,” brushing the loose hair back from her face, laying a cool cloth on her face or pulling the covers higher so she would not shiver. He would crowd out any other visions or dreams, the night filled with his dark eyes and the moonlight, a dozen possibilities that she would treasure in her heart and risk confessing in the soft light of a cloudy day. She could not have it, only the fantasy and the knowledge that he shared it. Downstairs were a hundred men, maybe more, who needed him and a senior officer he must find a way to manage lest the hospital collapse under the strain of their mutual enmity. She would try to remember what she would have said without thinking before she had fallen ill; she ignored the tears she wept that were joy and melancholy mixed.

“Yes, go see your patients. And you might make amends with Major McBurney, he is—it will be hard for the men if the chief and the executive officer are at odds. It would be for the best if you…spoke to him. I shall rest, I shall wait for you, when you can come back to me,” she said, aware that she had ruined the impression she meant to give of the Head Nurse able to organize the place from her sickbed with her obvious, plaintive conclusion. He would see through the weak pretense she made framing her questions as indifferent statements. Would he tease her? Scold? Had she overstepped? She thought it must be the illness, the way the fever took her insidiously, that sapped her confidence and made her tremble; she could not allow that it was the way she loved him now. He touched her hand very lightly, the way he would brush a kiss on her eyelids, and the smile was in his gaze, his voice, not his lips.

 “We’ll talk about everything soon.”

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Assonance

Assonance Definition

Assonance refers to the repetition of identical stressed vowels in nearby syllables when they are followed by different consonants or consonant clusters. Even though sometimes omitted for brevity, the latter part of the definition is equally important as the first one, because If identical stressed vowels are followed by identical consonant sounds, then the literary device in question is not assonance, but rhyme.

Thus, the phrase “white knight” is an example of rhyme; however, the title of Dylan Thomas’ poem “In the White Giant’s Thigh” is an example of assonance. In both cases, the “long i” [aɪ] is repeated in all of the stressed syllables, but only in the first one the consonant behind it sounds identical as well (“waɪt naɪt” vs. “waɪt ˈʤaɪənts θaɪ”).

Assonance was frequently used as a substitute for rhyme in early Celtic, Spanish, and French poetry, which is why it is sometimes (somewhat unsuitably) still called “vowel rhyme,” “vocalic rhyme” or even “half rhyme.” When Augustan and Romantic English poets started using rhymes on an almost regular basis, they saw in assonance a great way to amplify the musical effects of their poems. However, at least since the second half of the 19th century, modern poets once again have started employing assonance in place of a rhyme for the exact opposite effect.

Some of literature’s most skillful users of assonance are Alexander Pope, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and Dylan Thomas.

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Assonance Examples

Assonance in a Sentence

Example #1: Idioms

For nearly a week afterwards, the domestics observed significantly to each other, that Miss Isabella was as ‘nice as pie!’

OED lists this 1855 Which: Right or Left? sentence as the earliest occurrence of the idiom “nice as pie.” As is obvious, the idiomatic expression—as many others (“a good look,” “a dead end,” “high time,” etc.)—is made memorable through the use of assonance, as both “nice” and “pie” contain the “long i” but not repeating consonants.

Example #2-3: Proverbs

Variety is the spice of life.

In the proverb above, all of the nouns contain the “long i” [aɪ]. Interestingly enough, according to a wide-ranging 2012 study, about a quarter of English proverbs assonate. In the example below, assonance of the “long o” [əʊ] is effectively resolved in the “short o” of the last word (“moss”):

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Example #4: Nursery Rhymes

As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Each wife had seven sacks, Each sack had seven cats, Each cat had seven kits: Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were there going to St. Ives?

The nursery rhyme above is actually a riddle – so do try to solve it if you want a break from all this literary talk with a simple mathematical exercise. Highly assonant, this riddle employs effective assonance of both the “long i” (in “I,” “Ives” and “wives”) and the “short e” (in “met,” “man,” “seven,” “sacks,” “had,” “cats,” and “many”). In one instance (“sacks”/”cats”), assonance works as a nice substitute for rhyme.

Example #5: Advertising Slogans

Finger lickin’ good.

KFC’s famous slogan—“finger lickin’ good”—works so well because of the assonance of the “short i” repeated three times in the initial four syllables. However, it works even better when the first two words are paired up with KFC’s actual product—”finger lickin’ chicken”— which adds two more [ɪ]’s to the mix and spices the assonance with a dash of rhyme.

(Further Reading: 10 Examples of Assonance in a Sentence)

Assonance in Poetry

Example #1: Alexander Pope, First Satire of the Second Book of Horace 25-26 (1733)

Rend with tremendous Sound your ears asunder, With Gun, Drum, Trumpet, Blunderbuss and Thunder.

Alexander Pope was a deft user of many rhetorical devices, and assonance was certainly not an exception. In the second verse from the couplet above, he manages to achieve an almost onomatopoetic effect, combining the assonance of the “short u” vowel [ʌ] with bilabial consonants (“b,” “p,” and “m”) to create the effect promised in the first verse: “tremendous sound” which rends the ears asunder.

Example #2: John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 1-2 (1820)

Thou still unravished bride of quietness, Thou foster child of silence and slow time…

There are not many verses more beautiful than the two which open John Keats’ great “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” However, it often goes unjustly unnoted that a large portion of this beauty the verses owe to the assonance of the “long i” which Keats masterfully uses in all five nouns present in the excerpt: “bride,” “quietness,” “child,” “silence,” and “time.” And to make the verses even more sweet-sounding, this grand assonance is nicely prepared by the humble introductory assonant pair “still unravished,” tightly linked through the repeated use of the “short i.”

Example #3: Algernon Charles Swinburne, “August” (1866)

The colour of the leaves was more Like stems of yellow corn that grow Through all the gold June meadow’s floor

Even detractors of Algernon Charles Swinburne hail him a musical genius; and, indeed, his mastery of the phonetic literary devices is, to say the least, impressive. Even though published in his debut poetry collection, “August” already exemplifies this brilliantly. The repeated “o” sounds—whether short or long—permeate the excerpt, appearing in almost every second word: “colour,” “more,” “yellow,” “corn,” “grow,” “gold,” “meadow,” and “floor.” This produces a highly euphonious effect, which Swinburne strikingly manages to sustain throughout the whole poem.

Example #4: Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland I.7.1-4 (1875)

It dates from day Of his going in Galilee; Warm-laid grave of a womb-life grey; Manger, maiden’s knee;

Considered by many to be perhaps his greatest masterpiece, the 35-stanza Christian ode “The Wreck of the Deutschland” demonstrates wholly Gerard Manley Hopkins’ masterful use of not only his unique contributions to prosody (instress and sprung rhythm) but also of some much more common literary devices such as assonance and alliteration. The “long a” hauntingly dominates the four verses excerpted above, appearing no less than seven times, twice in combination with the alliterative “d” and “m” (“dates”/”day” and “manger”/”maiden”).

Example #5: Dylan Thomas, “Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait” 49-52 (1941)

Whales in the wake like capes and Alps Quaked the sick sea and snouted deep, Deep the great bushed bait with raining lips Slipped the fins of those humpbacked tons.

Not many modern poets—if anyone—have managed to replicate Dylan Thomas’ verbally dense and rhythmically resonant verses. In the thirteenth quatrain of his “Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait,” he demonstrates how exceptionally skillful he is in using assonance to produce enduringly evocative imagery. And it’s fascinating to think that even though seven words in the stanza use the “long a”— and six of them are monosyllabic—none of them rhyme with each other: “whales,” “wake,” “capes,” “quaked,” “great,” “bait” and “raining”. “This symphony of vowels and consonants proves Thomas a master,” notes William York Tindall in A Reader’s Guide to Dylan Thomas. “Not Hopkins himself could put sweeter sounds together.”

(Further Reading: 10 Examples of Assonance Poems)

Assonance in Literature

Example #1: William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1 III.3.48 (1591)

When Death doth close his tender dying eyes.

In Shakespeare on Theatre, Robert Cohen provides a list of all 136 different adjectives that William Shakespeare uses in his plays to vividly describe the human eyes. As in the example above (“dying eyes”), many of them are quite melodious, assonant adjective + noun sets. Can you find where the Bard uses three other assonant pairings of this kind: “admiring eyes,” “desiring eyes,” and “fiery eyes”?

Example #2: Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee” 38-39 (1849)

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride…

Much like Swinburne, Edgar Allan Poe was a skilled user of assonance, mainly for its musical effects. To some—like the French symbolist poet Charles Baudelaire—this made him the designer of verses “carved like diamonds”; to others—such as Aldous Huxley—Poe’s use of phonetic literary devices seemed analogous to a sensitive man wearing “a diamond ring on every finger.” You can understand both sides of the argument if you try reading the above couplet out loud. As you can already see, here, in merely two verses, Poe uses the “long i” no less than eleven times! However, it is difficult to deny how melodious and memorable this makes the ending of “Annabel Lee,” Poe’s last complete poem.

Example #3: Robert A. Harris, Writing with Clarity and Style (2003)

So flows the river, going past the town, its whole load of toxins, fish, and sediment pouring evermore into the sea.

The example above is borrowed from Robert Harris’ celebrated “Guide to Rhetorical Devices for Contemporary Writers.” It’s only fitting to borrow the analysis of this highly assonant sentence as well. “The repeated ‘long o’ sounds in the [highlighted] words,” explains Harris, “create a drawn-out sonorousness, suggesting both flow and inevitability of movement.”

Songs with Assonance

Example #1: Alan Jay Lerner, The Rain in Spain

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain

In My Fair Lady, the 1956 musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle is a Cockney flower girl incapable of breaking her dialect speech patterns even after hundreds and hundreds of elocution exercises with Professor Henry Higgins. For example, instead of saying “reɪn” and “Speɪn” she says something along the lines of “raɪn” and “Spaɪn.” She finally gets it while singing the above verse in which five words (three of which rhyme) contain “the long a” [ei]: “rain,” “Spain,” “stays,” “mainly,” “plain.”

Example #2: The Doors, Light My Fire

You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn’t get much higher

Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire

Widely considered one of the greatest songs ever written—reaching #35 on Rolling Stone’s list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Time—The Doors’ “Light My Fire” offers an exquisite example of the sonorous power of one-vowel assonance. In addition to the rhymes—which necessarily all contain the “long i” [aɪ] (“liar,” “higher,” “fire”)—the lyrics also add many other words which include the same vowel sound and, thus, serve to build and/or keep up the momentum: “I,” “light,” “try,” “night.” And this goes on in the second verse as well, which adds few more assonant words: “time,” “mire,” “try,” “funeral pyre”!

Example #3: Radiohead, Exit Music (for a Film)

We hope that you choke…

Radiohead often use assonance in place of rhyme in their songs. As you can hear in this all but a textbook example, it is this literary device which has helped them pen some of the most hauntingly beautiful and yet chillingly disturbing verses. Rhyme may be at times too complete and childlike to carry the burden of heavy thoughts; assonance is much more adult and generates a lingering effect. Fittingly, the verse above is not the only one in “Exit Music (for a Film)” which employs assonance. You can also hear it in “the long a” of “today/ we escape” and “the long i” in “breathe/ keep breathing.”

(Further Reading: 5 Songs with Assonance)

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Emmy Awards 2017: The Winners List!

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Take home those pretty statues!

TV's biggest night was a roaring success as the 2017 Emmy Awards not only had stars rocking the red carpet in some glam outfits, but Hollywood heavyweights from your fave programs were honored for their brilliant work.

In case you missed any of the announced winners, please ch-ch-check out the complete winners list (below)!

Outstanding Drama Series

Better Call Saul

The Crown

The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

House of Cards

Stranger Things

This Is Us

Westworld

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us - WINNER

Anthony Hopkins, Westworld

Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul

Matthew Rhys, The Americans

Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan

Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder

Claire Foy, The Crown

Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Keri Russell, The Americans

Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld

Robin Wright, House of Cards

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Michael Kelly, House of Cards

Jonathan Banks, Better Caul Saul

Ron Cephas Jones, This Is Us

David Harbour, Stranger Things

John Lithgow, The Crown - WINNER

Mandy Patinkin, Homeland

Jeffrey Wright, Westworld

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black

Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things

Ann Dowd, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Chrissy Metz, This Is Us

Thandie Newton, Westworld

Samira Wiley, The Handmaid's Tale

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline

BD Wong, Mr. Robot

Hank Azaria, Ray Donovan

Brian Tyree Henry, This Is Us

Gerald McRaney, This Is Us - WINNER

Denis O'Hare, This Is Us

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

Cicely Tyson, How to Get Away with Murder

Laverne Cox, Orange Is the New Black

Shannon Purser, Stranger Things

Alison Wright, The Americans

Alexis Bledel, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Ann Down, The Leftovers

Outstanding Comedy Series

Atlanta

Black-ish

Master of None

Modern Family

Silicon Valley

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Veep - WINNER

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Anthony Anderson, black-ish

Aziz Ansari, Master of None

Zach Galifianakis, Baskets

Donald Glover, Atlanta - WINNER

William H. Macy, Shameless

Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Pamela Adlon, Better Things

Jane Fonda, Grace & Frankie

Allison Janney, Mom

Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep - WINNER

Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish

Lily Tomlin, Grace & Frankie

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Louie Anderson, Baskets

Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Ty Burrell, Modern Family

Tony Hale, Veep

Matt Walsh, Veep

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Vanessa Bayer, Saturday Night Live

Anna Chlumsky, Veep

Kathryn Hahn, Transparent

Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live

Judith Light, Transparent

Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Matthew Rhys, Girls

Riz Ahmed, Girls

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Saturday Night Live

Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Tom Hanks, Saturday Night Live

Hugh Laurie, Veep

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

Wanda Sykes, black-ish

Carrie Fisher, Catastrophe

Becky Ann Baker, Girls

Angela Bassett, Master of None

Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Television Movie

Black Mirror: San Junipero - WINNER

Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle Of Love

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

Sherlock: The Lying Detective

The Wizard Of Lies

Outstanding Limited Series

Big Little Lies - WINNER

Fargo

Feud: Bette and Joan

Genius

The Night Of

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie

Ewan McGregor, Fargo

Geoffrey Rush, Genius

Robert De Niro, The Wizard of Lies

Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: The Lying Detective (Masterpiece)

John Turturro, The Night Of

Riz Ahmed, The Night Of - WINNER

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie

Carrie Coon, Fargo

Felicity Huffman, American Crime

Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies - WINNER

Jessica Lange, Feud: Bette and Joan

Susan Sarandon, Feud: Bette and Joan

Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie

Bill Camp, The Night Of

Alfred Molina, Feud: Bette and Joan

Alexander Skarsgård, Big Little Lies - WINNER

David Thewlis, Fargo

Stanley Tucci, Feud: Bette and Joan

Michael Kenneth Williams, The Night Of

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie

Judy Davis, Feud: Bette and Joan

Laura Dern, Big Little Lies - WINNER

Jackie Hoffman, Feud: Bette and Joan

Regina King, American Crime

Michelle Pfeiffer, The Wizard of Lies

Shailene Woodley, Big Little Lies

Outstanding Reality Program

The Amazing Race

American Ninja Warrior

Project Runway

RuPaul's Drag Race

Top Chef

The Voice - WINNER

Outstanding Variety/Talk Series

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - WINNER

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Real Time with Bill Maher

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Emmy Awards 2017: The Winners List!

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Take home those pretty statues!

TV's biggest night was a roaring success as the 2017 Emmy Awards not only had stars rocking the red carpet in some glam outfits, but Hollywood heavyweights from your fave programs were honored for their brilliant work.

In case you missed any of the announced winners, please ch-ch-check out the complete winners list (below)!

Outstanding Drama Series

Better Call Saul

The Crown

The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

House of Cards

Stranger Things

This Is Us

Westworld

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Sterling K. Brown, This Is Us - WINNER

Anthony Hopkins, Westworld

Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul

Matthew Rhys, The Americans

Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan

Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

Milo Ventimiglia, This Is Us

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Viola Davis, How to Get Away with Murder

Claire Foy, The Crown

Elisabeth Moss, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Keri Russell, The Americans

Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld

Robin Wright, House of Cards

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Michael Kelly, House of Cards

Jonathan Banks, Better Caul Saul

Ron Cephas Jones, This Is Us

David Harbour, Stranger Things

John Lithgow, The Crown - WINNER

Mandy Patinkin, Homeland

Jeffrey Wright, Westworld

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Uzo Aduba, Orange Is the New Black

Millie Bobby Brown, Stranger Things

Ann Dowd, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Chrissy Metz, This Is Us

Thandie Newton, Westworld

Samira Wiley, The Handmaid's Tale

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series

Ben Mendelsohn, Bloodline

BD Wong, Mr. Robot

Hank Azaria, Ray Donovan

Brian Tyree Henry, This Is Us

Gerald McRaney, This Is Us - WINNER

Denis O'Hare, This Is Us

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series

Cicely Tyson, How to Get Away with Murder

Laverne Cox, Orange Is the New Black

Shannon Purser, Stranger Things

Alison Wright, The Americans

Alexis Bledel, The Handmaid's Tale - WINNER

Ann Down, The Leftovers

Outstanding Comedy Series

Atlanta

Black-ish

Master of None

Modern Family

Silicon Valley

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Veep - WINNER

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Anthony Anderson, black-ish

Aziz Ansari, Master of None

Zach Galifianakis, Baskets

Donald Glover, Atlanta - WINNER

William H. Macy, Shameless

Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Pamela Adlon, Better Things

Jane Fonda, Grace & Frankie

Allison Janney, Mom

Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep - WINNER

Tracee Ellis Ross, black-ish

Lily Tomlin, Grace & Frankie

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Louie Anderson, Baskets

Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Ty Burrell, Modern Family

Tony Hale, Veep

Matt Walsh, Veep

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Vanessa Bayer, Saturday Night Live

Anna Chlumsky, Veep

Kathryn Hahn, Transparent

Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live

Judith Light, Transparent

Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series

Matthew Rhys, Girls

Riz Ahmed, Girls

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Saturday Night Live

Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Tom Hanks, Saturday Night Live

Hugh Laurie, Veep

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series

Wanda Sykes, black-ish

Carrie Fisher, Catastrophe

Becky Ann Baker, Girls

Angela Bassett, Master of None

Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live - WINNER

Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Television Movie

Black Mirror: San Junipero - WINNER

Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle Of Love

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks

Sherlock: The Lying Detective

The Wizard Of Lies

Outstanding Limited Series

Big Little Lies - WINNER

Fargo

Feud: Bette and Joan

Genius

The Night Of

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie

Ewan McGregor, Fargo

Geoffrey Rush, Genius

Robert De Niro, The Wizard of Lies

Benedict Cumberbatch, Sherlock: The Lying Detective (Masterpiece)

John Turturro, The Night Of

Riz Ahmed, The Night Of - WINNER

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie

Carrie Coon, Fargo

Felicity Huffman, American Crime

Nicole Kidman, Big Little Lies - WINNER

Jessica Lange, Feud: Bette and Joan

Susan Sarandon, Feud: Bette and Joan

Reese Witherspoon, Big Little Lies

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie

Bill Camp, The Night Of

Alfred Molina, Feud: Bette and Joan

Alexander Skarsgård, Big Little Lies - WINNER

David Thewlis, Fargo

Stanley Tucci, Feud: Bette and Joan

Michael Kenneth Williams, The Night Of

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a Movie

Judy Davis, Feud: Bette and Joan

Laura Dern, Big Little Lies - WINNER

Jackie Hoffman, Feud: Bette and Joan

Regina King, American Crime

Michelle Pfeiffer, The Wizard of Lies

Shailene Woodley, Big Little Lies

Outstanding Reality Program

The Amazing Race

American Ninja Warrior

Project Runway

RuPaul's Drag Race

Top Chef

The Voice - WINNER

Outstanding Variety/Talk Series

Full Frontal with Samantha Bee

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver - WINNER

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Real Time with Bill Maher

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