Literary notes about Emphasize (AI summary)
In literature, "emphasize" functions as a versatile tool to draw attention to crucial details or ideas. Authors employ it to highlight particular words or concepts, as when a pronoun or noun is accentuated to reinforce agreement or significance [1, 2]. It also serves to underline abstract arguments or differentiate contrasting perspectives in fields ranging from sociology to philosophy [3, 4, 5]. Moreover, writers invoke the term to intensify narrative moments or character traits, ensuring that key points are unmistakably clear [6, 7, 8]. Overall, the use of "emphasize" enriches discourse by explicitly marking elements that are critical to understanding the text's deeper meaning [9, 10, 11].
- It is used to emphasize a noun or pronoun, expressed or understood, with which it agrees like an adjective.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - 4. Intensive pronouns , used to emphasize a noun or pronoun; as, I myself saw it .
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Scarcely can I emphasize enough the truth that in respect of this fundamental trait, a social organism and an individual organism are entirely alike.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - What has been said simply serves to emphasize the instrumental character of the abstract sciences.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - All that the will does is to emphasize and linger over those which seem pertinent, and ignore the rest.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - By and by, out of the stillness, little, scarcely perceptible noises began to emphasize themselves.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain - It makes an art out of coldness in narration which serves to emphasize and bring out by contrast the human warmth of the story's substance.
— from The Best Short Stories of 1917, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story - Occasionally he would cease to remember it, and be about to emphasize an oath with a sweeping gesture.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane - It is the moral training involved in strict observance of propriety, that I wish to emphasize.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe - Consider well the relative value of different positions in the sentence so that you may give the prominent place to ideas you wish to emphasize.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - I believe it's the first time you've met him," she went on, to emphasize the fact that it was to her that Swann owed the introduction.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
