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Glowing line

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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

A poetic line characterized by brightness, vividness, or radiance of imagery

Detailed Definition
A glowing line is a verse line imbued with luminous imagery, radiant diction, or transcendent emotion that seems to emit its own light within the poem; it often marks moments of epiphany, grace, or intense perception, standing out through sonic and semantic brilliance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Emily Dickinson’s “There’s a certain Slant of light” uses glowing line for winter epiphany; Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” employs glowing line for natural revelation; Contemporary poet Ross Gay uses glowing line for everyday joy; Glowing line appears in Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo”; In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats’ “embalmed darkness” is a glowing line.
Additional Notes
Glowing line: A descriptive term for a line of poetry that is particularly radiant, vivid, or emotionally powerful, often due to striking imagery, strong alliteration, or a surprising turn of thought.
Also Known As
radiant line shining verse luminous phrase glowing utterance Bioluminescent line radiant verse line
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