Thesaurus / asyndeton
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synonyms for asyndeton
- 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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How to use asyndeton in a sentence
And this is what Homer has expressed by using the figure Asyndeton.
ON THE SUBLIMELONGINUSTherefore the figure asyndeton, whereby conjunctions are omitted, is highly commended by writers of rhetoric.
ESSAYS AND MISCELLANIESPLUTARCHBut the asyndeton resulting from the suppression of these words was felt to be intolerable.
THE CAUSES OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE TRADITIONAL TEXT OF THE HOLY GOSPELSJOHN BURGONBut the asyndeton (so characteristic of the fourth Gospel) proving uncongenial to certain of old time, D inserted και.
THE CAUSES OF THE CORRUPTION OF THE TRADITIONAL TEXT OF THE HOLY GOSPELSJOHN BURGONOf this sort is Asyndeton when the conjunctions uniting sentences are removed.
ESSAYS AND MISCELLANIESPLUTARCHThe asyndeton in this distich is odd, given the preceding series of connectives.
THE LAST POEMS OF OVIDOVIDWORDS RELATED TO ASYNDETON
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.