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asyndeton::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | rhetorical device |
| Derivation | asyndetic |
Examples of asyndeton
asyndeton
In one of my favorite chapters, Eco describes rhetorical devices, or tropes, used in listmaking, such as asyndeton, the avoidance of conjunctions.
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Parallelism is often achieved in conjunction with other stylistic principles, such as antithesis, anaphora, asyndeton, climax, epistrophe, and symploce.
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A comma splice should not be confused, though, with asyndeton, a literary device used for a specific effect in which coordinating conjunctions are purposely omitted.
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His verses are not always melodious or carefully constructed but he often places key words for good effect and he employs linguistic devices such as asyndeton, familiar in common speech.
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The use of such devices as asyndeton, anaphora, and chiasmus reflect preference for the old-fashioned Latin style of Cato to the Ciceronian periodic structure of his own era.
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- The omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used
- Asyndeton (from the Greek: u1F00u03C3u03CDu03BDu03B4u03B5u03C4u03BFu03BD, "unconnected", sometimes called asyndetism) is a figure of speech in which one or several conjunctions are omitted from a series of related clauses. Examples are veni, vidi, vici and its English translation "I came, I saw, I conquered". Its use can have the effect of speeding up the rhythm of a passage and making a single idea more memorable...
- Omission of the part of speech "particle" from written Greek. Habitually occurs in Mark. This is evidence of a semitic origin for Mark.
- Lack of conjunctions between coordinate words, phrases, or clauses; a form of brachylogy. "But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground." -- Abraham Lincoln. See also: brachylogy, polysyndeton.
- N. - rhetorical device of omitting conjunctions. asyndetic, adj.
- Consists of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list of items, asyndeton gives the effect of unpremeditated multiplicity, of an extemporaneous rather than a labored account:
- Omission of conjunctions between a series of related clauses.
- The absence of conjunctions between words, phrases or clauses. "He was a bag of bones, a floppy doll, a broken stick, a maniac." (Jack Kerouac, On the Road)
- The construction of a sentence without an expected conjunction (e.g. "The man went up the hill, drew water from the well.")
