caesura
| In poetry, a natural pause in a line of verse. |
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Temporal shifts and caesuras between narrative events are abrupt, unmarked, or provisory. The three-acre puddle teems with inspiration and life--from the turtles lounging in the sun on fallen tree branches to the tadpoles at the shore that resemble tiny swimming caesuras. His daughter Rosa, who opens the storytelling and serves as the guide through a couple of caesuras that thread the twelve tales, reminds her listeners that their family origins lie in Sicily: "The rope is la famigghia, see? |
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