The practice of omitting conjunctions between words, phrases, or clauses. In a list, it gives a more extemporaneous effect and suggest the list may be incomplete. Ex: "He was brave, fearless, afraid of nothing."
Polysyndeton
The deliberate use of many conjunctions. It is used to slow down the rythm of the sentence.
Epideictic
Highly cermonial or ritualized language.
Aesthetic
Pertaining to the value of art for its own sake or for form.
Chiasmus
Figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel caluses is reversed in the second. It not not involve a repetition of word. It can be used to reinforce antithesis. Ex.: "his time is a moment, and a point his space."
Loose Sentence
A type of sentence in which the main idea comes first, followed by dependednt grammatical units such as prhases and clauses (dependent). A work containing many of these will often seem informal.
Epiphany
A sudden or intuitive insight or perception into the reality or essential meaning of something usually brought on by a simple or common occurrence or experience.
Trope
The use of a word in a figurative sense iwth a decided change or extension in its literal meaning.
Invective
The use of angry and insulting language in satirical writing.
Digression
Movement away from the main sotry or theme of a peice of writing.
