An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
ASYNDETON
asyndeton
(noun) the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
asyndeton (countable and uncountable, plural asyndetons or asyndeta)
(rhetoric) A stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of words, phrases, clauses.
Hypernyms
• brachylogy
Anagrams
• nonsteady
Source: Wiktionary
A*syn"de*ton, n. Etym: [L., fr. Gr. (Rhet.)
Definition: A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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