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  2. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Roman emphasis example Different methods of emphasis. The most common methods in Western typography fall under the general technique of emphasis through a change or modification of font: italics, boldface and SMALL CAPS. Other methods include the alteration of LETTER CASE and spacing as well as color and *additional graphic marks*.

  3. Exaggeration - Wikipedia

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    In the arts, exaggerations are used to create emphasis or effect. As a literary device, exaggerations are often used in poetry, and is frequently encountered in casual speech. [3] Many times the usages of hyperbole describes something as better or worse than it really is. [4] An example of hyperbole is: "The bag weighed a ton."

  4. Hyperbole - Wikipedia

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    Hyperbole is often used for emphasis or effect. In casual speech, it functions as an intensifier: [5] [3] saying "the bag weighed a ton" [6] simply means that the bag was extremely heavy. [7] The rhetorical device may be used for serious or ironic or comic effects. [8] Understanding hyperbole and its use in context can help understand the ...

  5. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").

  6. Rule of thirds - Wikipedia

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    Analogous to this "Rule of thirds", (if I may be allowed so to call it) I have presumed to think that, in connecting or in breaking the various lines of a picture, it would likewise be a good rule to do it, in general, by a similar scheme of proportion; for example, in a design of landscape, to determine the sky at about two-thirds ; or else at ...

  7. Emphasis mark - Wikipedia

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    In South Korea, the emphasis mark (드러냄표 deureonaempyo) usually rules as a dot or circle centred above the characters in the horizontal texts and to the right of the characters in the vertical texts. Examples: using the CSS text-emphasis property: 한글의 본 이름은 훈민정음 이다.

  8. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    The composition of a picture is different from its subject (what is depicted), whether a moment from a story, a person or a place. Many subjects, for example Saint George and the Dragon, are often portrayed in art, but using a great range of compositions even though the two figures are typically the only ones shown.

  9. Stress (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, when emphasis is produced through pitch alone, it is called pitch accent, and when produced through length alone, it is called quantitative accent. [3] When caused by a combination of various intensified properties, it is called stress accent or dynamic accent; English uses what is called variable stress accent.