The following excerpt (8) from a secondary school textbook explaining the events that led to the First World War illustrates how the interaction between high/low Significance and Affect can create a feeling of rising tension: (Quinlan et al. 2003, 38).
The North Sea campaign of the First World War illustrates how, despite this support, the threat of mine and torpedo attack, and the failure to integrate or appreciate the capabilities of new techniques, seriously inhibited the operations of the Royal Navy Grand Fleet, the greatest battleship fleet of its time.
For Polybius, the Second Punic War illustrated the superiority of the strong Roman constitution over Hannibal's individual genius.
Mr. Blechman's soldier, Vertov, is returning to his village at the end of the war (illustrated in a searing montage of battlefield photographs from World War I).
Yossarian's war illustrated a world in which the only way out was to go crazy, and to go crazy in such circumstances was proof of sanity.
First, that the White House was right — politically, if not strategically — to seek Congress's signoff, since the Gulf War illustrated how doing so can reassure an unsteady electorate.
Nonetheless, those dealing with Turkey, an ally straddling the West and the volatile Middle East, and Mexico, a troubled neighbor battling a corrosive drug war, illustrate the diplomatic problems created by exposing even routine communications to international light.
The characters in "Movin' Out" include Brenda and Eddie (the couple from "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant") and Tony (from the song "Movin' Out"), all of whom have their lives thrown into chaos by the Vietnam War (illustrated by tracks like "Goodnight Saigon").
Each week, they endure a quest involving the termination of a social-media manager, or the agony of a day-long meeting, or the assembly of a PowerPoint presentation meant to win a contract supplying arms for a secret war, illustrating bullet points with actual bullets.
Both sides would build or attempt ironclads of other designs, yet the battle between the Monitor and the Virginia set the style for the majority of iron shipbuilding during the Civil War, illustrated the root differences in industry between the two regions and further established the foundations for the coming postwar industrial revolution.
The course of the war illustrated the vulnerability of battleships to cheaper weapons.
