what do you call the highlighted words

Answer:
The highlighted word here is noise. The highlighting informs the reader that this is the main information in the sentence – what the sentence is “about”.
Explanation:
The word what can be used not just to ask questions but also as a kind of relative pronoun, meaning “the thing which”. It is with this second meaning that what can highlight particular words. To do so, it must begin a sentence that has the highlighted word at the end after BE, like this:
Yan ang akin answer paki brain list po at advanced christmas