Speaking Pro: Stress - The Emphatic

Stress is sub-divided into two: the word stress and the emphatic stress. In a word stress, we stress only a syllable or two of a word. However, both of them (in a case of two stresses in a word) cannot carry the primary stress. It would be one primary, one secondary. In the emphatic, stress doesn't occur on a single syllable but a whole word; compare the following: 

• rendezvous = REN-dez-vous (word stress).
• She is now a GREATER chorister (emphatic stress).

Emphatic is a word from the base word, emphasis. What does emphasis mean? It means a force that is added to a word or syllable while speaking; it's usually placed on words in sometimes a frustrating manner that gives those words high importance in the mind of the listener/decoder of the speech. It's intonational, and sometimes, attitudinal too. See this:

Speaker A: Is that your father's new wife?

Speaker B: 🙄 my father's COUSIN!

The example above shows that there's always an assumed question asked before am emphasis is laid. Some people say when you write any English paper, the only option that doesn't carry the emphasized word is always your answer. It's correct but always? No! Try the following.

The man is a SOLDIER

A. Is the man a military man?

B. Does the man serve in the army?

C. Was the man a musician?

D. Is the man a musician?

In this question, none of its options carries the word, soldier. So you should always have it in mind that whenever you see an emphatic stress, a question must have been asked. The question either carries an opposition of the emphatic or a preposterous version of the word. I wouldn't like to proffer answer to the question above. I need you to rack your brain on it and meet with a teacher of English that you can, for enlightenment. While choosing your answer, remember the question statement is in present tense, and not past.