Entertainment / Literature / Parataxis: Rhetorically juxtaposing two or more clauses or prepositions together in strings or with few or no connecting conjunctions or without indicating their relationship to each other in terms of co-ordination or subordination, i.e. A loose association of clauses as opposed to hypotaxis. A common form of parataxis is asyndeton, in which expected conjunctions fail to appear for artistic reasons. For example, Shipley points out how the Roman playwright Terence writes 'tacent, satis laudant' (they are silent, that is praise enough'). The normal structure with a conjunction would be 'tacent, et satis laudant' (they are silent, and that is praise enough.') See Shipley 422-23 for this discussion and a comparison among Greek and Latin and English writers. Paratactic style is typically short and simple--like Hemingway's writing.
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