stressing each word. It is a good device for exciting special attention, and it

furnishes a pleasing variety. Patrick Henry's notable climax could be delivered

in that manner very effectively: "Give--me--liberty--or--give--me--death." The

italicized part of the following might also be delivered with this every-word

emphasis. Of course, there are many ways of delivering it; this is only one of

several good interpretations that might be chosen.

 

Knowing the price we must pay, the sacrifice we must make, the burdens we must

carry, the assaults we must endure--knowing full well the cost--yet we enlist,

and we enlist for the war. For we know the justice of our cause, and _we know,

too, its certain triumph._

 

--_From "Pass Prosperity Around,"_ by ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, _before the Chicago

National Convention of the Progressive Party_.

 

Strongly emphasizing a single word has a tendency to suggest its antithesis.

Notice how the meaning changes by merely putting the emphasis on different words

in the following sentence. The parenthetical expressions would really not be

needed to supplement the emphatic words.

 

_I_ intended to buy a house this Spring (even if you did not).

 

I _INTENDED_ to buy a house this Spring (but something prevented).

 

I intended to _BUY_ a house this Spring (instead of renting as heretofore).