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(noun) special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. |
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Related Words: rhetorical device |
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(noun) special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of gray with distinctive red accents" |
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Synonyms: accent |
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Related Words: focus, grandness, importance, stress |
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(noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression: "the vehemence of his denial" or "his emphasis on civil rights" |
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Synonyms: vehemence |
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Related Words: intensity, intensiveness, overemphasis |
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(noun) the relative prominence of a syllable (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable" |
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Synonyms: accent, accentuation, stress |
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Related Words: inflection, pitch accent, prosody, sentence stress, tonic accent, word accent, word stress |
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