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... syllable or a word is to give that syllable or word prominence over its companions . Thus in brother you place stress on the first syllable : you speak , therefore , of this first syllable as the accented one . In English words the ...
... syllable or a word is to give that syllable or word prominence over its companions . Thus in brother you place stress on the first syllable : you speak , therefore , of this first syllable as the accented one . In English words the ...
Pagina 169
... syllable groups are the three- syllable groups . The group where the strongly accented syllable precedes the two weakly accented syllables - dolefully , sacrament , scrutiny is called a DACTYL . Like the other words descriptive of the ...
... syllable groups are the three- syllable groups . The group where the strongly accented syllable precedes the two weakly accented syllables - dolefully , sacrament , scrutiny is called a DACTYL . Like the other words descriptive of the ...
Pagina 291
... syllable has a vowel ( or vowel - equivalent ) and it may have also a consonant or consonants : in the line , “ O come , all ye faith- ful " , O is a syllable in itself , come is a syllable , faith - ful is a disyllable . There is an ...
... syllable has a vowel ( or vowel - equivalent ) and it may have also a consonant or consonants : in the line , “ O come , all ye faith- ful " , O is a syllable in itself , come is a syllable , faith - ful is a disyllable . There is an ...
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accent adjective adverb Alice Alice in Wonderland Antony beauty Ben Jonson better Brutus Cęsura called Charles Lamb clause comma consonant dear delight doth effective English example expression eyes G. B. SHAW give grammar Greek Hamlet hand hath hear hearers heart honour Iambic Pentameter idea instance Julius Cęsar King Lady language Latin light lines live Look Lord Macaulay matter meaning metaphor metonymy Milton mind never Nominative Absolute notice noun objective Paradise Lost paragraph passage Perhaps periphrasis person phrase play plural poem poet poetry Pope preposition pronoun pronunciation prose question quotation reader reason rhyming rhythm sense sentence Shakespeare silent sing singular sonnet sound speak speaker speech spelling split infinitive style sweet syllable talk tell term thee thing thou thought tongue Transitive Verb TROCHEE usually verb verse voice vowel words writing