In the caesura of the pillow fight, my girlfriend took the opportunity to hit me with a table leg.
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Caesura
/sɪˈzjʊəɹə/
Synonyms for "caesura" (148 found)
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diaeresisdimeterdipodydiscontinuitydistance betweendochmiacdouble spacedropelegiacelegiac coupletelegiac pentameterem spaceemphasisen spaceepitritefeminine caesurafissurefootfreeboardgap
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hair spacehalf spaceheptameterheptapodyheroic couplethesitationhexameterhexapodyhiatusholidayiambiambiciambic pentameterictusinteriminterludeintermediate spaceintermezzointermissionintermittenceinterruptioninterspaceinterstice
Noun(1 words)
instrumental break
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intervalionicjinglejumpjuncturelacunalapselayoffleapleewayletupliltlullmarginmasculine caesurameasuremetermetrical accentmetrical footmetrical group
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metrical unitmetronmolossusmoramovementnumberspaeonpausepentameterpentapodyperiodpointproceleusmaticpyrrhicquantityrecessremissionrespiterestrhythmroomsemicolonsingle spacespacespace betweenspondeesprung rhythmstand downstand-downstaystopstresssuspensionswingsyzygytetrametertetrapodytetrasemethesistime intervaltribrachtrimetertripodytrisemetrocheetrucevacation
Noun(7 words)
line breakmetrical pausemusical pausephrase breakpoetic pausesound interruptionverse pause
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13 entriesbreakinflectionintermissioninterruptionlinguistic featuremusical featurepausepoetic deviceprosodysound interruptionstructural devicesuspensionversification term
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3 entriesgrand pauseinternal caesuramidline caesura
Collocations
6 entriescaesural pausemetrical caesuramidline caesuranatural caesurapoetic caesurastrong caesura
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3 entriesSample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The caesura is meant to fall not with the comma after difficult, but after thou; and there is a most effective and grand suspension intended. It is Satan who speaks— Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.
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Now, then, for my prologue. I am not going to change my cæsuras and cadences for anybody; so if you do not like the heroic, or iambic trimeter brachy-catalectic, you had better not wait to hear it […]
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We feel of this, as we feel of a great passage in “Hamlet” or “Lear,” that here is verse at once capable of the highest sublimity and capable of sustaining its theme, of lifting and lowering it at will, with endless resource in the slide and pause of the caesura, to carry it on and on.
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