25 Metaphors for accenting

The miserable, bitter dramathe tawdry tragedy, whose most desperate accent was its shameful approach to farcewore itself to an end.

It knows why each passion produces each accent: 'because the accent is the modulation of the soul,' and why a given emotion produces a given expression of the face, gesture and attitude of the body.

[470] "As soon as language proceeds, from mere articulation, to coherency, and connection, accent becomes the guide of the voice.

But the accent, the rhythm, the air of it are all Scots, and it was a Burns thinking in his native tongue who wrote it, not the Burns of "Anticipation forward points the view "; or "Pleasures are like poppies spread, You grasp the flower, the bloom is shed.

Her accent surely was English, or possibly Canadian.

The accents were Wallace's.

His exposition is this: "Accent is the rising and falling of the Voice, above or under its usual Tone.

As stress naturally lengthens the syllables on which it falls, if we suppose the grave accent to be the opposite of this, and to belong to all syllables which have no peculiar stress,are not enforced, not acuted, not circumflected, not emphasized; then shall we truly have an accent with which our short quantity may fairly coincide.

Thus his accent was a curious mixture of French and Cockney, lubricated with oily African.

Ah! happy prime Of cloudless purity, no stormy fame His unknown sprite then stirred, a golden time Worth all the restless splendour of a name; And one soft accent from those gentle lips Might all the plaudits of a world eclipse.

"And what's occurring in Paris?" "Ah, there we have the puzzle!" replied the man Krail, his accent being an unfamiliar oneso unfamiliar, indeed, that those unacquainted with the truth were always placed in doubt regarding his true nationality.

And no sooner has he told us that our accent is but one single mode of distinguishing a syllable, than he proceeds to declare it two.

Again, he defines thus: "Accent is the fixed but inexpressive distinction of syllables by quantity and stress: alike both in place and nature, whether the words are pronounced singly from the columns of a vocabulary, or connectedly in the series of discourse.

"If the syllable be long, the accent is on the vowel; as, in b=ale, m=o=od, educ=ation; &c.

"Amongst them [the ancients,] we know that accents were marked by certain inflexions [inflections] of the voice like musical notes; and the grammarians to this day, with great formality inform their pupils, that the acute accent, is the raising [of] the voice on a certain syllable; the grave, a depression of it; and the circumflex, a raising and depression both, in one and the same syllable.

Her accents were the coaxing accents of a nurse with a childor with a lunatic.

"The accent of the ancients is the opprobrium of modern criticism.

"Dr. Johnson tells us, that in English poetry the accent and the quantity of syllables is the same thing.

I imagined my own language being spoken there five or six centuries ago, and speculated as to whether the accent was Cockney or Lancashire, or West of England.

ACCENT, as commonly understood, is the peculiar stress which we lay upon some particular syllable of a word, whereby that syllable is distinguished from and above the rest; as, gram'-mar, gram-ma'-ri-an.

15.In all late editions of L. Murray's Grammar, and many modifications of it, accent is defined thus: "Accent is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter OR syllable in a word, that it may be better heard than the rest, or distinguished from them; as, in the word presúme, the stress of the voice must be on the letter u, AND [the] second syllable, sume, which takes the accent.

He also used an occasional rime, but the accent and rhythm of his verse are more Saxon than modern.

His accent was sincerity itself.

"Accent is the tone with which one speaks.

"Amongst them [the ancients,] we know that accents were marked by certain inflexions [inflections] of the voice like musical notes; and the grammarians to this day, with great formality inform their pupils, that the acute accent, is the raising [of] the voice on a certain syllable; the grave, a depression of it; and the circumflex, a raising and depression both, in one and the same syllable.

25 Metaphors for  accenting