1) in "Endymion", Keats writes, "A thing of beauty is a joy forever /Its loveliness increases. It will never/pass in to nothingness, but still will keep...". Line 3 onwards, the syntactic unit in the line is not end-stopped. The syntax, and the sense/meaning carry on in to the next line, and so on. This poetic device is known as.....
The name of this this poetic effect is "enjambment." This French term literally means 'striding over'. Such 'run-on lines' add a unique (s)pace to poetry.
2) William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 has this line,"O no! // it is an ever-fixed mark." What is the // signify? a) punctuation b) caesura c) a stop d) a breath. The correction option is (b). A caesura is a stron phrasal pause within a line which adds expressive emphasis.
3) Keats' "To Autumn" is a(n) a) Horatian ode b) Pindaric ode c) encomiastic ode d) Romantic ode. The correct option is (a). Category (d) does not exist. (b) and (c) refer to the same typology of odes.
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