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Figures of speech: Asyndeton Schema
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Sometimes in the speech some expressive modes different from the normal ones are used, in terms of the position of the words (the normal order they have in speech changes), in terms of their meaning (said with a different meaning) etc. These deviations are called figures of speech and have various names (similes, metaphors, etc.).

With figures of speech, the poet or anyone else who handles speech: prose writer, orator, etc. succeeds in making his speech more expressive and demonstrative, more alive and so on attract and keep our attention, to print him in our soul more vividly, more impressively. Especially the writer achieves in addition the beautification of his speech. One of them is the Asyndeton Schema.

We have a disjointed form, when words or phrases are in the speech one after the other without any connecting word between them.

When we write these words or phrases, we always separate them with a comma.

Examples

  1. Ήχος συρτός, συλλογιστός, συνέρημος... : " Κική Δημουλά " : «Τα Πάθη της Βροχής»
  1. Σηκώθηκε, πλύθηκε, ντύθηκε έφαγε.
  1. Ο πολιτισμός της Ελλάδας είναι τα λαμπρά έργα της στην τέχνη, την αρχιτεκτονική, την ποίηση, το δράμα, τη φιλοσοφία, την επιστήμη.
  1. καταλαβαίνω από μέταλλα, βρίσκω φιλόνια, ανοίγω γαλαρίες, κατεβαίνω στα πηγάδια, δε φοβούμαι :
  • Αντίθετο του Ασύνδετου, είναι το Πολυσύνδετο σχήμα.
  • Polysyndeton is the opposite of asyndeton

See more examples here: https://polyglotclub.com/wiki/Language/Modern-greek-1453/Culture/Figures-of-Speech-Definitions-and-Examples

                                      

As you finish your studies in this area, consider these associated subjects for further exploration: Historical speech of Xenophon Zolotas, Greek Salad Horiatiki Salata, The Homeric Epics: Iliad & The mysterious origins of punctuation.

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