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emphatic repetition

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Pronunciation

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

The deliberate repetition of words or phrases to highlight meaning or add intensity

Detailed Definition
Emphatic repetition is the strategic reuse of words, phrases, or syntactic structures to intensify meaning, convey urgency, or imprint key ideas on the reader’s memory; common in prophetic, political, or liturgical poetry, it transforms redundancy into rhetorical power, as in Ginsberg’s incantatory “Moloch!” sections.
Example
Example in poetry:
Emphatic repetition: Poe’s “The Raven” repeating “nevermore” for strong effect; Dylan Thomas repeating “Do not go gentle into that good night” to urge resistance; Blake’s “Tiger, tiger, burning bright” repeated to emphasize awe; Whitman’s use of “I sing” across lines to affirm identity and voice.
Additional Notes
The purposeful, emphatic restatement of a word, phrase, or line to stress a key idea or emotional state; includes techniques like anaphora, epistrophe, or refrain; look for the meaning the repetition adds.
Also Known As
Forceful repetition Intensive repetition Emphatic reiteration Stressed repetition Conduplicatio Conduplication vehement repetition
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