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Asyndeton
What is it?
Examples
- "Check this out. So you meet this person. Boy, are they fine, kind, sensitive, loving, witty, charming, intelligent...." - Stevie Wonder
- Be one of the few, the proud, the Marines. - Marine Corps Advertisement
- "When we listen to the better angels of our nature, we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things -- such as goodness, decency, love, kindness." - Richard Nixon, Inaugural Address
Answer
Figure of omission in which normally occurring conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) are intentionally omitted in successive phrases, or clauses; a string of words not separated by normally occurring conjunctions.
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