caesura

Plural: caesurae, caesuras

Noun

• A pause or interruption in a line of poetry or music.
• a pause or interruption (as in a conversation)
  • "after an ominous caesura the preacher continued"
• a break or pause (usually for sense) in the middle of a verse line
• A pause or interruption in a poem, music, building, or other work of art.
• Using two words to divide a metrical foot.
• The caesura mark ‖ or ||.
• A break of an era or other measure of history and time; where one era ends and another begins; turning point.

Examples

• The game reached a caesura as both players pondered their next Scrabble moves.

Synonyms

virgule

Related Words

enjambment, hemistich, CAESURIC