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Definition of accent
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Accent
(n.)
expressions
in
general;
speech.
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Accent
::
Accent
(n.)
Modulation
of the voice in
speaking;
manner
of
speaking
or
pronouncing;
peculiar
or
characteristic
modification
of the
voice;
tone; as, a
foreign
accent;
a
French
or a
German
accent..
Accent
::
Accent
(n.) The
expressive
emphasis
and
shading
of a
passage.
Accent
::
Accent
(v. t.) To
express
the
accent
of
(either
by the voice or by a
mark);
to utter or to mark with
accent.
Amphibrach
::
Amphibrach
(n.) A foot of three
syllables,
the
middle
one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as,
h/b/r/.
In
modern
prosody
the
accented
syllable
takes the place of the long and the
unaccented
of the
short;
as,
pro-phet#ic..
Stress
::
Stress
(n.) Force of
utterance
expended
upon words or
syllables.
Stress
is in
English
the chief
element
in
accent
and is one of the most
important
in
emphasis.
See Guide to
pronunciation,
//
31-35..
Baritone
::
Baritone
(n.) A word which has no
accent
marked
on the last
syllable,
the grave
accent
being
understood..
Accent
::
Accent
(n.) The
rhythmical
accent,
which marks
phrases
and
sections
of a
period..
Accent
::
Accent
(v. t.) To mark
emphatically;
to
emphasize.
Dunnock
::
Dunnock
(a.) The hedge
sparrow
or hedge
accentor.
Accent
::
Accent
(n.) A mark or
character
used in
writing,
and
serving
to
regulate
the
pronunciation;
esp.: (a) a mark to
indicate
the
nature
and place of the
spoken
accent;
(b) a mark to
indicate
the
quality
of sound of the vowel
marked;
as, the
French
accents..
Hexameter
::
Hexameter
(n.) A verse of six feet, the first four of which may be
either
dactyls
or
spondees,
the fifth must
regularly
be a
dactyl,
and the sixth
always
a
spondee.
In this
species
of verse are
composed
the Iliad of Homer and the
Aeneid
of
Virgil.
In
English
hexameters
accent
takes the place of
quantity..
Anapest
::
Anapest
(n.) A
metrical
foot
consisting
of three
syllables,
the first two
short,
or
unaccented,
the last long, or
accented
(/ / -); the
reverse
of the
dactyl.
In Latin
d/-/-tas,
and in
English
in-ter-vene#,
are
examples
of
anapests..
Caesura
::
Caesura
(n.) A
metrical
break in a
verse,
occurring
in the
middle
of a foot and
commonly
near the
middle
of the
verse;
a sense pause in the
middle
of a foot. Also, a long
syllable
on which the
caesural
accent
rests,
or which is used as a
foot..
Syncopation
::
Syncopate
(v. t.) To
commence,
as a tone, on an
unaccented
part of a
measure,
and
continue
it into the
following
accented
part, so that the
accent
is
driven
back upon the weak part and the
rhythm
drags..
Pronounce
::
Pronounce
(v. t.) To utter
articulately;
to speak out or
distinctly;
to
utter,
as words or
syllables;
to speak with the
proper
sound and
accent
as,
adults
rarely
learn to
pronounce
a
foreign
language
correctly..
Type
::
Type (n.) A
raised
letter,
figure,
accent,
or other
character,
cast in metal or cut in wood, used in
printing..
Inflection
::
Inflection
(n.) A
slide,
modulation,
or
accent
of the
voice;
as, the
rising
and the
falling
inflection..
Female Rhymes
::
Female
rhymes
()
double
rhymes,
or
rhymes
(called
in
French
feminine
rhymes
because
they end in e weak, or
feminine)
in which two
syllables,
an
accented
and an
unaccented
one,
correspond
at the end of each
line..
Proparoxytone
::
Proparoxytone
(n.) A word which has the acute
accent
on the
antepenult.
Circumflex
::
Circumflex
(n.) A
character,
or
accent,
denoting
in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long
syllable,
marked
thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other
languages,
denoting
a long and
contracted
syllable,
marked
[/ or ^]. See
Accent,
n., 2..
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