Entertainment / Literature / Hovering Accent: Another term for spondee. See spondee.
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Accent Noun Synonyms: emphasis, stress, force, prominence, accentuation, intensity, inflection, cadence, beat
Accent Verb Synonyms: accentuate, emphasize, stress, give prominence to, mark, underline, underscore, distinguish, highlight, set off or apart
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Lifestyle / Poetry / Hovering Stress: A metrical accent that may apply to either of two sequential syllables, but not to both, and so seems to 'hover' over them equally. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Wrenched Accent: As Babette Deutsch phrases it, wrenched accent is 'The triumph of metrical stress over word accent when the two conflict' (195). Normally, a word like body typically has a strong stress on the first s MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Hovering Accent: Another term for spondee. See spondee. MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Acute Accent: A diacritical mark indicating primary stress. MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Accentual Verse: Lines whose rhythm arises from its stressed syllables rather than from the number of its syllables, or from the length of time devoted to their sounding. Old english poems such as beowulf and caedmon' MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Accentual-Syllabic Verse: Lines whose rhythm arises by the number and alternation of its stressed and unstressed syllables, organized into feet. Most english poems from the renaissance to the late eighteenth century are though MORE