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Parataxis

Parataxis: writing successive independent clauses, with coordinating conjunctions, or no conjunctions:

  • We walked to the top of the hill, and we sat down.
  • In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. --Genesis 1:1-2 (KJV)
  • The Starfish went into dry-dock, it got a barnacle treatment, it went back to work.
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