Enjambment
A poetic technique in which a grammatical phrase or clause continues beyond the end of a line, forcing the reader to continue to the next line to complete meaning. Enjambment creates tension between the visual line break and the syntactic unit.
Real World
In Wilfred Owen's 'Futility', the enjambment across 'Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides / Full-nerved — still warm — too hard to stir?' forces readers past the line break, mimicking the desperate, breathless urgency of trying to revive a dying soldier.
Exam Focus
Quote the exact line break and explain what meaning the pause creates — never just identify enjambment without analysing its effect.
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