Question

Complete the statement using the correct term.

Answer 1

Answer: enjambment

Enjambment  is a literary device that continues a thought or sentence to the next line without pause.

Explanation: enjambment is used in both poetry and song. In poetry it occurs in a stanza when the final pause of a verse does not coincide with the grammatical or semantic pause or when a thought or sense, phrase or clause is split in two, leaving the first part in one verse and the second in the next.

Shakespeare frequently used enjambment in his plays.

The Winter’s Tale (By William Shakespeare): Act 2 Scene 1 Page 6

“I am not prone to weeping, as our sex

Commonly are; the want of which vain dew

Perchance shall dry your pities; but I have

That honorable grief lodged here which burns

Worse than tears drown …”

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