caesura
1. a pause or interruption (as in a conversation) - after an ominous caesura the preacher continued • Derivationally related forms: caesural • Hypernyms: pause, intermission, break, interruption, suspension 2. a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line • Derivationally related forms: caesural • Hypernyms: prosody, inflection
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