Lecture
Omission of conjunctions, or asyndeton (Greek ἀσύνδετον, Latin dissolutio) — a stylistic figure: the construction of speech in which the conjunctions linking a sentence are omitted. It lends the utterance swiftness and dynamism, and helps convey a rapid succession of scenes, impressions, and actions.
Booths, women flash by,
Boys, shops, streetlamps,
Palaces, gardens, monasteries,
Bukharans, sledges, kitchen gardens,
Merchants, hovels, peasants,
Boulevards, towers, Cossacks,
Pharmacies, fashion shops,
Balconies, lions on gates
And flocks of jackdaws on crosses.
— A. S. Pushkin. Eugene Onegin. Chapter 7
Night, a street, a streetlamp, a pharmacy,
A meaningless and dim light.
— A. Blok. Night, Street, Streetlamp, Pharmacy
| Figures of Speech | |
|---|---|
| Figures |
Adynaton • Allusion • Amplification • Anadiplosis • Anacoluthon • Anaphora • Antithesis • Antitheton • Apocope • Apostrophe • Attraction • Asyndeton • Hyperbaton •Homeoteleuton • Gradation (Climax, Anticlimax) • Distinction • Zeugma • Isocolon • Nominative of theme • Inversion • Correction • Mesarchia •Polyptoton • Polysyndeton • Oxymoron • Parallelism • Paronomasia • Parcellation • Periphrasis • Pleonasm • Prolepsis • Retardation •Rhetorical question • Rhetorical exclamation • Rhetorical address • Symploce • Solecism • Tautology • Exact repetition • Aposiopesis • Chiasmus • Exergasia •Ellipsis • Emphasis • Epiphora |
| Tropes |
Allegory • Antiphrasis • Asteism • Antonomasia • Hyperbole • Dysphemism • Irony • Wordplay • Catachresis • Litotes • Meiosis • Metaphor • Metonymy • Personification •Pathos • Periphrasis • Sarcasm • Synecdoche • Simile • Euphemism • Epithet |
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