PARATAXIS

Definition
The placing of multiple clauses or phases without conjunctions

Origin
It comes from the Greek word paratassein which means to place side by side

PURPOSE

• To quickly and briefly introduces characters and details.

EXAMPLES!

"In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun..." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, 1929)

HURRY, IT IS GETTING LATE!

WHICH IS NOT AND EXAMPLE OF PARATAXIS

• I went to the store after school.
• I came, I saw, I conquered.