EMPHATIC PHRASE. (38)
When it is desired to give to a phrase great force of expression, each word, and even the parts of a compound word, are independently emphasized.
EXAMPLES. (38)
1. Cassius. Must I endure all this? Brutus. All this!—Ay,—more. Fret, till your proud—heart—break.
2. What! weep you when you but behold
Our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look ye here,
Here is himself, marred, as you see, by traitors.
3. There was a time, my fellow-citizens, when the Lacedaemonians were sovereign masters, both by sea and by land; while this state had not one ship—no, NOT—ONE—WALL.
4. Shall I, the conqueror of Spain and Gaul; and not only of the Alpine nations, but of the Alps themselves; shall I compare myself with this HALF—YEAR—CAPTAIN?
5. You call me misbeliever—cutthroat—dog.
Hath a dog—money? Is it possible—
A cur can lend three—thousand—ducats?
EMPHATIC PAUSE. (39)
A short pause is often made before or after, and sometimes both before and after, an emphatic word or phrase,—thus very much increasing the emphatic expression of the thought.