em in
the Rhine!"

If the speaker's attitude of mind is not straightforward and sincere,
if he speaks with a double meaning, in irony or sarcasm, the stress is
a combination of the radical and final, known as _compound stress_
(><). This is analogous to the compound inflection. See page 21.

Now welcome, welcome, Sextus!
Now welcome to thy home!
Why dost thou stay, and turn away?
Here lies the road to Rome.

Accordingly, the compound stress is used when the intention is to
taunt or to ridicule:

_Sir Peter._ Ay--there again--taste! Zounds!
Madam, you had no taste when you married me!

_Lady Teazle._ _That's very true_, indeed, Sir Peter!
and after having married _you_, I should _never pretend
to taste again_, I allow.

=Emphasis=--The importance of an idea, whether this idea is expressed
by a single word, or by a phrase or clause, is indicated by a
variation of pitch, force, or time. This change in pitch, force, or
time, by attracting attention to that idea, is a means of emphasis. It
is the new idea, or the idea which is important through contrast
either expressed or implied, which will attract the reader's attention
and which he will make prominent in this way:

_Brutus._ You say you are a _better soldier_:
Let it _appear_ so; make your vaunting _true_,
And it shall _please me well_: for mine own part,
I shall be _glad_ to learn of noble men.

_Cassius._ You _wrong_ me every way; you _wrong_ me, Brutus;
I said, an _elder_ soldier, not a _better_:

"better soldier," "appear," and "true" are central ideas; they express
important ideas not mentioned before. When Cassius replies he at once
throws the idea of "soldier" in the back-ground and emphasizes
"better" by contrasting it with "elder." He also introduces the new
idea "wrong" which he makes still more emphatic by repetition. Brutus
also introduces the new idea "please me well" which he makes emphatic
by repeating it in the word "glad." Other examples of words and
phrases becoming more emphatic through repetition are:

Faster come, faster come;
Faster and faster,
* * * * *
Fast they come, fast they come;

"_Jump_--far--out boy into the wave,
JUMP, or I fire," he said,
"This chance alone your life can save:
JUMP, JUMP."

In the case of a climax, the emphasis grows stronger on each member of
the series:

"Take the helm, lead the line, save the squadron!" cried its ch