What does caesura mean?
Caesura means (rhetoric).
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/sɪˈzjʊəɹə/ · noun
(rhetoric).
Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.
A quiet time. A caesura. Then everything happened almost at once, and none of it was good.
Use caesura when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Caesura means (rhetoric).
Common synonyms include virgule.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.
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