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a definite pause within a line of poetry, often signalled by a punctuation mark. This feature may be used more than once in a line, or when there is no pause at the end of the previous line. E.g. â?¦ And think that I may never live to trace / Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; / And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, / That I shall never look upon thee more ... (Keats).
a clause that can stand alone and form a complete sentence, e.g. The children ate their supper...
a unit of meter or unit of rhythm. See meter and rhythm.
(also called an Elizabethan sonnet) a sonnet consisting of three quatrains (four-line stanzas)...
a style of writing and speaking that is dramatises events, e.g. Horses drowned, houses washed...
a one-page document used to advertise something or promote a cause, e.g. We distributed anti-fur...