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Emotional outcry

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Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A sudden passionate expression or exclamation within a poem conveying intense feeling

Detailed Definition
A sudden exclamatory expression of intense emotion in poetry, often using interjections like "Oh!" "Ah!" "Alas!" or "Hark!" to mark dramatic emotional peaks. These passionate outbursts create moments of heightened intensity, marking turning points, climactic revelations, or overwhelming feelings that break through normal discourse. Common in romantic, religious, and highly emotional verse, emotional outcries provide punctuation for powerful feelings and signal shifts in tone or emotional register.
Example
Example in poetry:
Walt Whitman’s “O Captain! My Captain!” erupts in emotional outcry: “O the bleeding drops of red, / Where on the deck my Captain lies”; Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” opens with a torrential outcry against societal oppression; Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” climaxes in defiant outcry: “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair”; Lucille Clifton’s “jasper texas 1998” voices communal grief as outcry against racial violence; Amiri Baraka’s “SOS” is a direct emotional outcry: “Give me some / good old / black / magic”; Warsan Shire’s “Home” contains the outcry: “no one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark.”
Additional Notes
Sudden exclamatory expression of strong emotion in poetry. Often uses interjections like "Oh!" "Ah!" "Alas!" Creates dramatic peaks and emotional intensity. Common in romantic and passionate verse. Can mark turning points or climactic moments.
Also Known As
exclamation passionate cry emotional outburst fervent expression Ecphoneme Ecphonesis Interjection
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