paratactic

Examples

• All

• The writer used a paratactic style, listing ideas one after the other without any conjunctions.

• Behind this paratactic narrative style lies a complex of changeable groups of themes relating to each other in what Lord calls a submerged "tension of essences," which we might think of as a tension of meanings.

  Academic text (1993)

• For example, at the end of The Heart of the Country, Weldon brings together past, present, and future in a brief paratactic passage: "He'll be saying next all I need is the love of a good man."

  Fiction book (1993)

• This compression of sentences indeed delivers the apt effect of excitement, for it is also paratactic.

  Academic text (1997)

• The perceived wholes express themselves in sentences without logical connections, often in paratactic constructions.

  Academic text (1999)

• Women write ongoing, paratactic, impressionistic, digressive, ad hoc sentences.

• The first five categories expand in this respect the work of the Russian formalist Victor Shklovski, who described the contrast between paratactic and embedded constructions.

  Academic text (1992)

• And these include not only the paratactic, nonhierarchical composition of the dance, but also (and relatedly) the physicality upon which it insisted.

  Academic text (1999)

• The first example is a paratactic, parallelistic passage, devoid of any organizing mechanism of analytic style such as subordination.

  Academic text (1991)

• Part of the stylistic monotony in this excerpt from Herbert Hoover's 1928 election campaign speech lies in the first three sentences, all three of them paratactic and linear (following the normal word order of subject, verb, object), and all three having approximately the same number of syllables.

  Academic text (1997)

Synonyms

P

paratactical

vsparatactic

• Specialized

9.9

A style that links short sentences without using connecting words

is the usual adjective for that same clause arrangement

A

asyndetic

vsparatactic

• Literature

9.9

Without words like and between items in a sentence to make writing faster

focuses on omission for rhetorical effect rather than plain side-by-side order

J

juxtapositional

vsparatactic

9.0

Put next to each other without a linking word

is specific to written clauses lacking clear transitions, not any placement

How Connected

hypotactic

• Specialized

9.9

paratactic

• Specialized

9.9

asyndetic

• Literature

9.9

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology