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Heraclitus's writing style has been compared to a sibyl, as depicted here by Domenichino. Heraclitus's style has been compared to a Sibyl, [3] [30] [31] who "with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with her voice, thanks to the god in her".
The very short final line of a paragraph composed of a single word (highlighted blue) is a runt. The first line of a paragraph beginning at the end of a page (highlighted green) is called an orphan (sometimes called a widow). The last line of a paragraph continuing on to a new page (highlighted yellow) is a widow (sometimes called an orphan).
This line uses caesura in the medial position. In dactylic hexameter, a caesura occurs any time the ending of a word does not coincide with the beginning or the end of a metrical foot; in modern prosody, however, it is only called one when the ending also coincides with an audible pause in the line.
The rule of three can refer to a collection of three words, phrases, sentences, lines, paragraphs/stanzas, chapters/sections of writing and even whole books. [2] [4] The three elements together are known as a triad. [5] The technique is used not just in prose, but also in poetry, oral storytelling, films, and advertising.
Writing systems without word boundaries do not have explicit, systematic visible markers to distinguish the ending of one word and the beginning of another. In the ancient period until around 1000 AD, alphabets were written scriptio continua without spaces or special marks separating words. These cases of continuous writing are discussed there.
In the Devanagari script that is used to write languages like Hindi, Maithili, Nepali, etc., a vertical line U+0964 । DEVANAGARI DANDA is used to mark the end of a sentence. It is known as poorna viraam (full stop). In Sanskrit, the additional symbol of two vertical lines U+0965 ॥ DEVANAGARI DOUBLE DANDA is
The young actors were part of a discarded ending to the film that was shot, but has never been seen. (Photo: Warner Bros./ Courtesy: Everett Collection) (©Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection)
In reading, the delay of meaning creates a tension that is released when the word or phrase that completes the syntax is encountered (called the rejet); [3] the tension arises from the "mixed message" produced both by the pause of the line-end, and the suggestion to continue provided by the incomplete meaning. [9]