adversative asyndeton

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noun Rhetoric.

a staccato effect produced by omitting adversative connectives from between two or more items forming a group, as in “I liked all there was to buy in the store … I didn't get anything.”

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Compare copulative asyndeton.

Words nearby adversative asyndeton

advergame, adversarial, adversary, adversaryism, adversative, adversative asyndeton, adverse, adversely, adverse possession, adverse pressure gradient, adverse reaction

Example sentences from the Web for adversative asyndeton

And this is what Homer has expressed by using the figure Asyndeton.
On the Sublime|Longinus
Without the adversative, the colon is to be preferred: "Prosperity showeth vice: adversity, virtue."
The Verbalist|Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
Another example is, "Only the star dazzles; the planet has a faint, moon-like ray" (adversative).
An English Grammar|W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell
They are sometimes adversative; sometimes they are simply cumulative.
The Greatest English Classic|Cleland Boyd McAfee

The que here has a slight adversative force, as is often the case with et.
Cato Maior de Senectute|Marcus Tullius Cicero

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