#inflection__prosody  the patterns of stress and intonation in a language
  supertype:  manner_of_speaking__speech__delivery  your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"
  subtype:  intonation__pitch_contour  rise and fall of the voice pitch
     subtype:  intonation_pattern  intonations characteristic of questions and requests and statements
     subtype:  monotone__drone__droning  an unchanging intonation
     subtype:  singsong.intonation  a regular and monotonous rising and falling intonation
  subtype:  caesura  a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
  subtype:  enjambment__enjambement  the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause
  subtype:  accentuation__stress__emphasis__accent  the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"
     subtype:  tonic_accent__tonicaccent__pitch_accent__pitchaccent  emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness
     subtype:  word_stress__word_accent  the distribution of stresses within a polysyllabic word
     subtype:  sentence_stress__sentencestres  the distribution of stresses within a sentence
  subtype:  speech_rhythm__rhythm  the arrangement of spoken words alternating stressed and unstressed elements; "the rhythm of Frost's poetry"

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