Question

Read the excerpt from "Jabari Unmasked” by Nikki Grimes.

The ignorant ignore as best you can, and
in the end, mask aside, freshen your mouth
with ferocious lines of potent poetry, with
metaphors that mightily reveal the myriad
of emotions you feel—yet, in all their subtleties.

Which graphical element does the poet use in this excerpt?

short lines
right justification
enjambment
capitalized phrases

Answer 1

Enjambment — the sentence runs across line breaks (for example, "and / in the end..." and "mouth / with ferocious..."), so the thought continues without terminal punctuation at the line endings.