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asyndeton

Omission, for effect, of words acting as connectives or conjunctions, as in Tennyson's ‘Ah, miserable, false, unkind, untrue’.
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Third, the fracturing of grammar, the disjunction of style, asyndeton, and the juxtaposition of styles may have had an impact upon hearers.
Performance criticism: an emerging methodology in Second Testament ... by Rhoads, David / Biblical Theology Bulletin
Indeed, Messiah, God, angels - linked by asyndeton as Jonsonian as it is Miltonic - take the place of Jonson's four Lucanic characters; and "Heav'n, Hell, Earth, Chaos, All" are thrust together, or apart, as violently as are the elements of Lucan's "world.
"By Lucan driv'n about": A Jonsonian Marvell's Lucanic Milton by Shifflett, Andrew / Renaissance Quarterly
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