accentual
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| —adj | |
| 1. | of, relating to, or having accents; rhythmic |
| 2. | prosody Compare quantitative of or relating to verse based on the number of stresses in a line rather than on the number of syllables |
| ac'centually | |
| —adv | |
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Accentual
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
There are three basic accentual methods: stress, tone, and length.
Explain that iambic meter refers to accentual feet of an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.
There are sure to be foreign sounds or accentual peculiarities that do not fit the native phonetic habits.
Because the syllables are not counted, accentual verse has a certain flexibility.
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