Grade 6 Flashcards
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Q
What is a pause?
A
A break between words and sentences
1
Q
Why do we pause?
A
To take a breath
To make sense
To give emphasis
2
Q
What are the pauses in prose
A
Breath pause
Sense pause
Emphatic pause
Rhetorical pause
Oratorical pause
Dramatic pause
3
Q
What are the pause in verse?
A
Caesural pause
Suspensive pause
Metrical pause
End of line pause
4
Q
What is an emphatic pause used for?
A
To emphasise a word
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Q
What is a rhetorical pause?
A
Sense paused used in public speaking
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Q
What is an oratorical pause?
A
Emphatic pause used in public speaking
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Q
What is a Caesural pause?
A
Sense pause
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Q
What is a suspensive pause?
A
A pause at the end of an unjambed line of poetry
A line where the sense of the first line is carried into the second
No breath is taken
