- Contrastive stress
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Contrastive stress is the stressing of a word or syllable different from its normal accentuation or pronunciation for the purpose of providing contrast or focus from an alternative word or syllable.
Examples
- In the Gettysburg Address given by Abraham Lincoln, the stress given in the words "of", "by", and "for" in the sentence "of the people, by the people, for the people" is used to distinguish the three words as having greater purpose than the common terms. [1]
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