Translations for „enjambment“ in the English » German Dictionary

en·jamb(e)·ment [ɪnˈʤæm(b)mənt, Am enˈ-] N LIT

enjamb(e)ment

Enjambement nt

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English

Prospective enjambment occurs when the end of a line advertises its own need for syntactic resolution, as in "she drove in a blue/raincoat".

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But more generally, the real excitement stems not from the teleological, verbal actualization of what is actually said, but in the intuition, at the enjambment, that something is coming.

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I was left unsure, for instance, whether the enjambments (lines breaking partway through phrases) were always for artistic effect or sometimes just resorted to.

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His lines are usually end-stopped rather than run-on, enjambments which further add to the sense of dynamism.

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Enjambment has a long history in poetry.

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Enjambment is a line break in the middle of a sentence, phrase or clause, or one that offers internal (sub) text or rhythmically jars for added emphasis.

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She treats the silences between sentences like enjambments; she uses them to bait us.

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Enjambment tends to increase the pace of the poem, whereas end-stopped lines, which are lines that break on caesuras (pauses), emphasize these silences and slow the poem down.

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In practice, however, enjambment doesn't only delay the connection that we ultimately make between the two segments: it also alters it.

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He explained that the iambic mode might be obscured by the lack of rhyme and the use of enjambment.

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