## Emphasis

### Bold
For emphasizing a snippet of text with a heavier font-weight.

The following snippet of text is **rendered as bold text**.

``` markdown
**rendered as bold text**
```
and this HTML

``` html
<strong>rendered as bold text</strong>
```

### Italics
For emphasizing a snippet of text with italics.

The following snippet of text is _rendered as italicized text_.

``` markdown
_rendered as italicized text_
```
and this HTML:

``` html
<em>rendered as italicized text</em>
```