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asyndeton
noun as in figure of speech
Weak matches
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
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Example Sentences
And this is what Homer has expressed by using the figure Asyndeton.
Therefore the figure asyndeton, whereby conjunctions are omitted, is highly commended by writers of rhetoric.
But the asyndeton resulting from the suppression of these words was felt to be intolerable.
But the asyndeton (so characteristic of the fourth Gospel) proving uncongenial to certain of old time, D inserted και.
Of this sort is Asyndeton when the conjunctions uniting sentences are removed.
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On this page you'll find 53 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to asyndeton, such as: adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, and analogy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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