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  2. File:Example.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Short title: example derived form Ghostscript examples: Image title: derivative of Ghostscript examples "text_graphic_image.pdf", "alphabet.ps" and "waterfal.ps"

  3. Emphasis (typography) - Wikipedia

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    Example of black letter emphasis using the technique of changing fonts. In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them. [1] It is the equivalent of prosody stress in speech.

  4. Rhetorical operations - Wikipedia

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    In other words, amplification allows you to call attention to, emphasize, and expand a word or idea to make sure the reader realizes its importance or centrality in the discussion." Harris provides examples of amplification: "In my hunger after ten days of rigorous dieting I saw visions of ice cream – mountains of creamy, luscious ice cream ...

  5. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    For example, the phrase, "John, my best friend" uses the scheme known as apposition. Tropes (from Greek trepein, 'to turn') change the general meaning of words. An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning ("For Brutus is an honorable man; / So are they all, all honorable men").

  6. File:Citing your sources.pdf - Wikipedia

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    Original file (1,275 × 1,650 pixels, file size: 397 KB, MIME type: application/pdf) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

  7. Prosody (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Contrastive stress is another everyday English example of phrasal prosody that helps us determine what parts of the sentence are important. Take these sentences for example: A man went up the STAIRS; Emphasizing that the STAIRS is how the man went up. A MAN went up the stairs; Emphasizing that it was a MAN who went up the stairs. [37]

  8. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Words to watch

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    The advice in this guideline is not limited to the examples provided and should not be applied rigidly. If a word can be replaced by one with less potential for misunderstanding, it should be. [1] Some words have specific technical meanings in some contexts and are acceptable in those contexts, e.g. claim in law.

  9. Pull quote - Wikipedia

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    In this example, a pull quote is centered between two columns. The text has been "pulled" from the bottom of the first column. In graphic design, a pull quote (also known as a lift-out pull quote) is a key phrase, quotation, or excerpt that has been "pulled" from an article and used as a page layout graphic element, serving to entice readers into the article or to highlight a key topic.