asyndeton
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Professor J. N. Grant points out to me the asyndeton following quaere ... sintne.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
Therefore the figure asyndeton, whereby conjunctions are omitted, is highly commended by writers of rhetoric.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
According to the manuscripts the preceding line ends with VTAR; I have printed Heinsius' VSVS, since there would otherwise be an asyndeton between utar and aspiciam.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
The use of tmesis, asyndeton, anacoluthon, aposiopesis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, litotes, in Latin oratory and poetry.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Cruttwell, Charles Thomas
The asyndeton in this distich is odd, given the preceding series of connectives.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
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