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Meaning of copulative asyndeton
cop'ulative asyn'deton
Pronunciation: [key]
— Rhet. Rhet.
- a staccato effect produced by omitting copulative connectives between two or more items in a group, as in “Friends, Romans, countrymen.” Cf. adversative asyndeton.