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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 5. March 30 1981

What are Enjambements?

What are Enjambements?

Now elocution is, despite the ridicule with which most people speak of it, something of which many students have some experience; a quick scout round among my friends revealed that most of them at one stage or another had had something to do with speech and drama classes. Certainly the thought of 'speech and drama' brought many images crowding into this reviewer's head; competition festival mothers with bright red lipstick, loud voices, and precocious eight-year-old Oliviers and Glenda Jacksons; the sweat pouring off as I waited outside the Door of the Examining Room for the Examiner to summon me in to say my one or two prepared pieces and answer a few simple questions on enjambements, inflection, and the neutral vowel. It was really not so much a hobby as a way of life, and for all those hundreds of students who have been through the mill a glance through the Lamda anthology will probably provide quite a nostalgic experience.