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Page 141
... stress , also commonly called an accent , is a greater amount of force given to one syllable in speaking than is given to another . We favor the stressed syllable with a little more breath and emphasis , with the result that it may come ...
... stress , also commonly called an accent , is a greater amount of force given to one syllable in speaking than is given to another . We favor the stressed syllable with a little more breath and emphasis , with the result that it may come ...
Page 142
... stress on its first syllable , a secondary stress on its third . But to keep the rule of thumb from becoming impracticably complicated , half - stresses are usually ignored in scansion and counted as wholes . Whenever two readers find ...
... stress on its first syllable , a secondary stress on its third . But to keep the rule of thumb from becoming impracticably complicated , half - stresses are usually ignored in scansion and counted as wholes . Whenever two readers find ...
Page 154
... stressed that we fall into the habit of stressing every line- ending , and so give a stress to the final syllables of animal and rational as well . The reader might well refuse to distort his language to the extent of saying " aniMAL ...
... stressed that we fall into the habit of stressing every line- ending , and so give a stress to the final syllables of animal and rational as well . The reader might well refuse to distort his language to the extent of saying " aniMAL ...
Common terms and phrases
A. E. HOUSMAN alliteration aloud attitude ballad beauty bird Blake breath called child connotations dark dead dear death diction doth E. E. Cummings earth Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes face feel figures of speech flowers GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS green hand hath hear heart heaven Hurroo iambic iambic pentameter J. V. CUNNINGHAM John Johnny kind leaves light live look Lord meaning metaphor meter Milton mind moon mother myth never night o'er paraphrase pattern pleasure poem's poet poet's poetry prose QUESTIONS reader reading reprinted rhythm rime Robert Frost Robert Lowell simile sing sleep song sonnet soul sound speaker stanza star stress suggests sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme things Thomas thou thought tone tree verse W. H. Auden WILLIAM WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS wind words Wordsworth Yeats