Line break: The point at which a line of poetry ends, which may or may not correspond to a grammatical pause.
How to apply it: Analyze how line breaks create emphasis, ambiguity, or tension between the visual form and the grammatical sense.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Poetry I
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