Try this exercise, which is commonly used to demonstrate the effect volume can have on meaning. Read the following sentence aloud, increasing your volume for each of the italicized words:
How many animals of each species did Moses take aboard the ark?
If you answered two, try saying the sentence again, only this time increasing your volume only on the work Moses.
Did you change in volume help you decipher the riddle this time?
(It was Noah, not Moses, who built the ark.)
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