Areopagus Volume XXXVIII

March 16, 2023

Highlights

Polyptoton The use of words from the same root, e.g. destroy, destroyer, destructive. It usually ends up being alliterative, too.


Scesis (or schesis) onomaton Using sentences composed wholly of nouns and adjectives, without verbs.


Asyndeton The omission of conjunctions such as and, or, and but. The most famous example is how we translate Julius Caesar’s Veni, Vidi, Vici: “I came, I saw, I conquered” rather than “I came, and I saw, and I conquered.”