Asyndeton | Asyndeton Meaning, Definition, Examples & Illustration
Asyndeton, Asyndeton Meaning, Definition, Examples & Illustration
Asyndeton | Asyndeton Meaning, Definition, Examples & Illustration
‘Asyndeton’ is a Greek word meaning ‘unconnected’. It is a figure of speech in which the connecting conjunctions are omitted for the sake of vividness. Examples:
- I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance.
Among my skimming swallows. –Tennyson.
- O, what a noble mind is here overthrown!
The courtier’s, scholar’s, soldier’s eye, tongue, sword. –Shakespeare
- The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood is stopped. –Shakespeare.
- O, I like your eyes, nose, cheeks, ears, black hairs. 0 0 0.
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N. B. The article ‘Asyndeton | Asyndeton Meaning, Definition, Examples & Illustration‘ originally belongs to the book ‘The Rhetoric‘ by Menonim Menonimus.
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