Emphasis

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• Types of emphasis
• Examples of bold emphasis
• Examples of emphasis on rhetoric
• Examples of word emphasis

The emphasis It is the action of highlighting or accentuating something, with the aim of highlighting one characteristic over the others.

There are different ways to emphasize something. In oral language, it is possible to emphasize something with the tone of voice, while in written language it is emphasized with the same sentence structure (rhetorical emphasis) or by highlighting with bold the word you want to emphasize.

• See also: Exaggeration

Types of emphasis

• Bold emphasis. This type of emphasis is often used in the journalistic, political and social spheres. They are also used in the news to emphasize the accentuation of something that the sender of the message wants the receiver to grasp. For example: We have everything ready.
• Emphasis on rhetoric. This type of emphasis works as a rhetorical figure where it is the language itself that is used to highlight expressive emphasis. To constitute itself as a rhetorical figure, the emphasis uses the synecdoche. For example: I saw it with my own eyes. 
• One word emphasis. Although a word can have a written or prosodic accent, the intonation that each word has is also called emphasis. For example: pa-gi-na.

Examples of bold emphasis

1. The student studied all night.
2. The employee was fired without prior notice.
3. Called at four o'clock.
4. This was predicted to be a chaos.
5. Put everything his effort but it did not turn out as he wanted.
6. His lie cost him very expensive.
7. The efforts they always pay off.
8. Monica managed to buy the blessed and last ticket for the concert.
9. The politician announced another hike in export prices.
10. The troops advanced I weighed to the refusal of the marshal.

Examples of emphasis on rhetoric

1. I saw it with my two eyes.
2. The plane danced like a dancer in the air, while the crew, anguished by such a spectacle, they saw their life pass in front of his eyes: his memories, his hopes, his unfulfilled goals, everything turned to the beat of the plane rocking in the air.
3. The ties Of consumption.
4. The Tempest whipped doing shake the rooftops in their wake.
5. Waves ruthless they were the bed of that tragedy.

• See also: Figures of speech

Examples of word emphasis

1. AC-sa (accent or emphasis on the syllable "ca").
2. Sea-you-llo (accent or emphasis on the syllable "ti").
3. Eat-dor (accent or emphasis on the syllable "dor").
4. A-mor (accent or emphasis on the syllable "mor").
5. Al-can-c-a (accent or emphasis on the syllable “c”).
6. Ra-íz (accent or emphasis on the syllable "íz").
7. Dog-tion (accent or emphasis on the syllable "tion").
8. Ca-fé (accent or emphasis on the syllable “fé”).
9. Pa-pá (accent or emphasis on the syllable “pá”).
10. Jó-ve-nes (accent or emphasis on the syllable “Jó”).

• See also: stressed syllables