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Meaning of asíndeton




John Rene Plaut

asíndeton
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ASNDETON literary figure of the group of 1 . Diction figures consisting of the 4 subgroups 1. 1 TRANSFORMATION FIGURES or METAPLASMOs , 1 . 2 REPEAT FIGURES 1 . 3 OMISSION FIGURES and 1 . 4 . POSITION FIGURES . Within the omission figures are 1. 3 . 1 SONDETON , 1 . 3 . 2 Zeugma , 1 . 3 . 3 . ELLIPSIS or ellipse, 1 . 3 . 4 . 1 . 3 . 4 SILEGMA , 1 3 . 5 RETICENCIA or APOSEOPESIS , 1 . 3 . 6 BRAQUILOGY and 1 . 3 . 7 PARALIPSIS or PRETERITION . The asyndeton is the suppression of the copulatory conjunction to enhance the elegance of the phrase.

  



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