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Emphasis

noun

(pl. emphases)

Special importance or significance. Synonym: accent. "The room was decorated in shades of grey with distinctive red accents"

Intensity or forcefulness of expression. Synonym: vehemence. "His emphasis on civil rights"

Special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g..

The relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch). Synonyms: accent, stress.

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"Emphasis" Quotes from Famous Books

... a right to speak your own opinion in your own house," she replied, with the least little sarcastic emphasis on "your own house," which cut me ...

— That Mother-in-Law of Mine • Anonymous

... I laughed in his face; at which he repeated it with added emphasis, then turned his back on me, as unworthy of notice away up in my window, and gave his undivided attention to a specially large grain of corn which had been unearthed by a meek-looking neighbor, and appropriated ...

— A Bird-Lover in the West • Olive Thorne Miller

... him irresistibly; he had not only all the vanity of the actor; but what might be called the born dramatist's love for the varied life of the stage—its paintings, costumings, rhetoric—and above all the touch of emphasis natural to it which gives such ...

— Oscar Wilde, Volume 1 (of 2) - His Life and Confessions • Frank Harris

... uncle the Dean's famous book of sermons, out of which she never failed to read every Sabbath; not understanding all, haply, not pronouncing many of the words aright, which were long and abstruse—for the Dean was a learned man, and loved long Latin words—but with great gravity, vast emphasis, and with tolerable correctness in the main. How often has my Mick listened to these sermons, she thought, and me reading in the cabin of a calm! She proposed to resume this exercise on the present day, with ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... forms of emphasis which serve as indications of the characteristics of expression. They are Force, Pitch, Volume, and Time. Force corresponds to life, or vitality, in the voice. Pitch corresponds to the range of the voice, and expresses affection or attraction. Volume measures the activity ...

— Expressive Voice Culture - Including the Emerson System • Jessie Eldridge Southwick

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