What is a sinalefa in verse?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. The merging of a final vowel and the next word's initial vowel into one syllable
- Step 1: A sinalefa happens between words. Step 2. When one word ends in a vowel and the next starts with one, they count as a single syllable. Answer: The merging of a final vowel and the next word's initial vowel into one syllable. Why not the others: Diéresis divides a diphthong into two syllables, sinéresis merges two vowels in hiatus within a word, and hiatus prevents the poetic metric merger.
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