Brachylogia

brach-y-lo'-gi-a / From Greek: brachy, "short" and logia, "speech"
Also spelt: brachiologia, brachiologa
Also known as: articulus, the cutted comma

The absence of conjunctions between single words. Compare asyndeton. The effect of brachylogia is a broken, hurried delivery.

Examples:

Phillip! Rise! Eat! Leave!
Love, hate, jealousy, frenzy, fury drew him from pity —Angel Day

You are not authorised to post comments.

Acknowledgement

The above information on individual rhetorical techniques is reproduced from the website “Silva Rhetoricae” (www.rhetoric.byu.edu ) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Credit for this content lies with Professor Gideon O Burton of Brigham Young University.