JAMB - Literature In English (2023 - No. 62)
'Fierce harmattan sun on innocent tendrils; torrential downpour on leaking thatch roofs; painful comfort of helpless eunuchs; thorny beauty of modern witches; the falcon's call on day-old-chicks, ours is a tragicomic dialogue:... mute echoes of pains' .
The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause- pattern called
The sonority and rhythmical structure of the lines above are achieved through a pause- pattern called
scansion
enjambment
caesura
apostrophe
Explanation
This is a pause-pattern for enhancing movement from one major idea to another or from one major point to another.
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