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noble speech

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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

Elevated, dignified diction conveying moral or heroic sentiment; it uses formal vocabulary, elevated syntax, and rhetorical figures to create a sense of grandeur and seriousness befitting noble subjects.

Detailed Definition
Noble speech refers to elevated, dignified language used in poetry to convey moral gravity, heroic resolve, or public virtue, often drawing on classical or biblical cadences; Shakespeare’s Henry V (“band of brothers”) and Milton’s Satan (“The mind is its own place”) exemplify rhetoric that commands respect through ethical and sonic grandeur.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s Henry V: “We few, we happy few, we band of brothers”; Milton’s “Paradise Lost”: “The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven”; Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address adapted poetically: “That government of the people, by the people, for the people”; Yeats’s “Easter, 1916”: “All changed, changed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born”
Additional Notes
Noble speech uses elevated, dignified language to convey moral gravity or heroic resolve—associated with epic, tragedy, and public poetry; avoids colloquialism to signal universality or timelessness.
Also Known As
Heroic utterance elevated address dignified oration statesmanlike diction Golden diction golden language
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