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Tone :: Tone (n.) Accent, or inflection or modulation of the voice, as adapted to express emotion or passion..

Accent :: Accent (n.) A superior force of voice or of articulative effort upon some particular syllable of a word or a phrase, distinguishing it from the others..

Circumflex :: Circumflex (n.) A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2..

Stress :: Stress (n.) Force of utterance expended upon words or syllables. Stress is in English the chief element in accent and is one of the most important in emphasis. See Guide to pronunciation, // 31-35..

Accentuation :: Accentuation (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent.

Baritone :: Baritone (a.) Not marked with an accent on the last syllable, the grave accent being understood..

Accent :: Accent (n.) Stress laid on certain syllables of a verse.

Accentuality :: Accentuality (n.) The quality of being accentual.

Circumflect :: Circumflect (v. t.) To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel..

Modular :: Modular (a.) Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure..

Measure :: Measure (n.) The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats..

Dunnock :: Dunnock (a.) The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor.

Atonic :: Atonic (n.) A word that has no accent.

Proclitic :: Proclitic (a.) Leaning forward; -- said of certain monosyllabic words which are so closely attached to the following word as not to have a separate accent.

Enclitically :: Enclitically (adv.) In an enclitic manner; by throwing the accent back.

Anapest :: Anapest (n.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests..

Female Rhymes :: Female rhymes () double rhymes, or rhymes (called in French feminine rhymes because they end in e weak, or feminine) in which two syllables, an accented and an unaccented one, correspond at the end of each line..

Accentual :: Accentual (a.) Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

Enclitical :: Enclitical (v. i.) Affixed; subjoined; -- said of a word or particle which leans back upon the preceding word so as to become a part of it, and to lose its own independent accent, generally varying also the accent of the preceding word..

Thesis :: Thesis (n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis..

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