What effect does enjambment have when a sentence runs over the end of a line of poetry?

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: D. It creates flow and carries the reader into the next line

  1. Step 1: Enjambment means the sense continues past the line break.
  2. Step 2: This produces flow, momentum or breathlessness as the reader moves on.
Answer
It creates flow and carries the reader into the next line.
Why not the others: It stops the poem completely at the end of the line: that describes an end-stopped line. It shows that the poem is a sonnet: enjambment does not signal a form. It adds a rhyme to the last word of the line: rhyme is a separate feature.

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