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• Emphasis.
• Special forcefulness of expression that gives importance to something singled out; stress: a lecture on housekeeping with emphasis on neatness; paused for emphasis, then announced the winner's name. ... Special attention or effort directed toward something: a small-town newspaper's emphasis on local affairs. ... Synonyms: emphasis, accent, stress.
• These nouns mean special weight placed on something considered important: an education with an emphasis on science; will study music with an accent on jazz; laid heavy stress on law and order.
• emphasis - special importance or significance; "the red light gave the central figure increased emphasis"; "the room was decorated in shades of gray with distinctive red accents"accentgrandness, importance - a prominent status; "a person of importance"stress, focus - special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed".
• emphasis - intensity or forcefulness of expression; "the vehemence of his denial"; "his emphasis on civil rights"vehemenceintensiveness, intensity - high level or degree; the property of being intenseoveremphasis - too much emphasis.
• emphasis - special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e. ... topicalization - (linguistics) emphasis placed on the topic or focus of a sentence by preposing it to the beginning of the sentence; placing the topic at the beginning of the sentence is typical for English; "`Those girls, they giggle when they see me' and `Cigarettes, you couldn't pay me to smoke them' are examples of topicalization"rhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance).
• emphasis - the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"stress, accentprosody, inflection - the patterns of stress and intonation in a languageaccentuation - the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterancepitch accent, tonic accent - emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudnessword accent, word stress - the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic wordsentence stress - the distribution of stresses within a sentence.
• The emphasis was helped by the speaker's square wall of a forehead, which had his eyebrows for its base, while his eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves, overshadowed by the wall.
• Casaubon, and laid some emphasis on the strong feeling she appeared to have for that formal studious man thirty years older than herself.
• But with secondary characters the principles of emphasis and proportion generally forbid very distinct individualization; and sometimes, especially in comedy.
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• emphasis: In FM transmission, the intentional alteration of the amplitude-vs. ...

• EMPHASIS.
• This lesson will investigate how to control attention through emphasis -- how to make objects easy or difficult to notice. ...
• This is a matter of emphasis. ... Some situations call for more subtle emphasis such as leading the viewer through the composition and directing them to a secondary focal point. ...
• There are three major methods for controlling emphasis in a visual image: contrast, placement and isolation. ...
• Learning how to use size to control emphasis is important.
• Other contrasts like direction and texture can also be used to control emphasis.
• Where items are in relation to the format and each other can affect emphasis. ...
• Where you put objects in the format and in relationship to other objects can strongly affect emphasis.
• CONTROLLING EMPHASIS.
• PROPORTION/EMPHASIS PHOTOMONTAGE.

• Adding Emphasis.
• Visual Devices for Achieving Emphasis.
• In order to show emphasis, to highlight the title of a book, to refer to a word itself as a word, or to indicate a foreign word or phrase, the writer would use underlining in the typescript, which would signal the typesetter at the print shop to use italic font for those words. ...
• Because writers using computers today have access to a wide variety of fonts and textual effects, they are no longer limited to underlining to show emphasis. ... Writers in academic discourses and students learning to write academic papers are expected to express emphasis primarily through words themselves; overuse of various emphatic devices like changes of font face and size, boldface, all-capitals, and so on in the text of an essay creates the impression of a writer relying on flashy effects instead of clear and precise writing to make a point.
• Boldface is also used, especially outside of academia, to show emphasis as well as to highlight items in a list, as in the following examples.
• Some writers use ALL-CAPITAL letters for emphasis, but they are usually unnecessary and can cause writing to appear cluttered and loud. ...
• Punctuation Marks for Achieving Emphasis.
• Some punctuation marks prompt the reader to give a word or sentence more than usual emphasis. ...
• Choice and Arrangement of Words for Achieving Emphasis.
• Emphasis by repetition of key words can be especially effective in a series, as in the following example.
• The inversion of the standard subject-verb-object pattern in the first sentence below into an object-subject-verb pattern in the second places emphasis on the out-of-sequence term, fifty dollars.
• Likewise, the main clause of a complex sentence receives more emphasis than subordinate clauses. ...
• Arrangement of Clauses for Achieving Emphasis.
• Since the terminal position in the sentence carries the most weight and since the main clause is more emphatic than a subordinate clause in a complex sentence, writers often place the subordinate clause before the main clause to give maximal emphasis to the main clause. ...
• Sentence Position and Variation for Achieving Emphasis.

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• This is a photolog of New York, with an emphasis on urban decay, strange signage, and general weirdness.

• citizens with special emphasis on youth. ...

• We advocate the reform of elementary and secondary education, with a strong emphasis on issues of equity and social justice.

• Dominance can be applied to one or more of the elements to give emphasis.

• com features photographs and descriptions of sites in Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey and Greece with an emphasis on biblical archaeology, geography and history. ...

• The emphasis is on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library. ...

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