Caesura (noun)
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Prosody. a break, especially a sense pause, usually near the middle of a verse, and marked in scansion by a double vertical line.
1550–60; Latin, equivalent to caes ( us ) cut (past participle of caedere )
Example sentences
“I used caesura to comic effect when discussing Athens with the sentence ‘No one drives in Athens || there’s too much traffic’.”
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