10 Matching Annotations
  1. Oct 2024
    1. sCarlyle's writings show. Proverb, Paradox, Epigram,exaggeration, humour, and unexpected order of words,all these can be means of Emphasis.
    2. Rhythm, Grammar, Vocab-ulary, Punctuation, etc. It was hard to break thefaggots when they were in a bundle, but it was easyto break them when they were taken one by one.

      Notice that again he's emphasizing breaking down the problem into steps, and he's using a little analogy to do so, just like he had described previously.

      (see: https://hypothes.is/a/NDArGoemEe-9BXcYJSUyMQ)

    3. I emphasised it by a Com-parison orIllustration,

      Creating a comparison or illustration of an idea is a means of emphasizing it. It also serves as a form of repetition and aide-memoire.

  2. Oct 2023
    1. They find that exposing populations to lead in their drinking water causes much higher homicide rates 20 years later, relative to similar places where kids avoided such exposure. They find that exposing populations to lead in their drinking water causes much higher homicide rates 20 years later, relative to similar places where kids avoided such exposure.

      Example of the repetition of the body text of an article immediately after it as a featured pull quote to draw the attention of the skimming reader to the importance of the portion of the passage.

  3. Mar 2021
  4. Jan 2021
    1. Outlined buttons are also a lower emphasis alternative to contained buttons, or a higher emphasis alternative to text buttons.
  5. Jun 2020
  6. Mar 2017
  7. Oct 2013
    1. Men do speak in this strain when they are deeply stirred, and so, once the audience is in a like state of feeling, approval of course follows. This is why such language is fitting in poetry, which is an inspired thing.

      emphatic, colorful, and exaggerated expressions of speech