is Asyndeton the same as Asyndetic list?
Hi, I wanted to ask this question because I am confused as they both are just excluding conjunctions.
Remember that language and people's rhetorical uses of it came first: the label for it came much later, when someone decided to categorise it and call it something like, "A List of Examples of Rhetorical Language".
"Asyndetic" is the adjective form of the abstract noun, "an asyndeton" so it describes something that uses an asyndeton, such as a list. In such a list, the rhetorical effect is created because it lacks what we usually expect, that is, a use of conjunctions or joining words. Miss out these and an extra rhetorical effect can be created. For example, the Roman emperor Julius Caesar is reputed to have said, "I came, I saw, I conquered" which sounds rhetorically more impressive because it uses an asyndeton in the form of an "asyndetic list", i.e. a list of three clauses unlinked by the usual conjunction, "and".
"Asyndetic" is the adjective form of the abstract noun, "an asyndeton" so it describes something that uses an asyndeton, such as a list. In such a list, the rhetorical effect is created because it lacks what we usually expect, that is, a use of conjunctions or joining words. Miss out these and an extra rhetorical effect can be created. For example, the Roman emperor Julius Caesar is reputed to have said, "I came, I saw, I conquered" which sounds rhetorically more impressive because it uses an asyndeton in the form of an "asyndetic list", i.e. a list of three clauses unlinked by the usual conjunction, "and".
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