parataxis
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- noun The juxtaposition of clauses or phrases without the use of coordinating or subordinating conjunctions, as It was cold; the snows came.
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- noun Speech or writing in which clauses or phrases are placed together without being separated by conjunctions, for example I came; I saw; I conquered.
Examples
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Many of the traits Otto Jespersen wrote of as characteristic of female language without considering them innovative such as parataxis and lack of punctuation have since been associated with experimental writing.
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You can see the hyper-priming, free-associative effect at play when Doyle adds that cannabis induces a parataxis wherein sentences resonate together and summon coherence in the bardos between one statement and other, rather than through explicit semantics.
Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and a Butterfly Effect in Thought
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Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing.
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As a poet I naturally transform any intimate details into otherness through character, metaphor and parataxis.
Melissa Broder: No Alarms and No Surprises: Coming Out to Parents as a Writer (and a Human)
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Worst in my view are those editors who cut a text to length by apparently taking out half the words in each sentence, leaving some half-thing crippled by terminal parataxis.
Note
The word 'parataxis' comes from a Greek word meaning to arrange side by side.
