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A figure which omits the connective; as, "I came, I saw, I conquered." It stands opposed to polysyndeton.
Asyndeton is a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses.
Aristotle also believed that asyndeton can be used effectively in endings of works, and he himself employs the device in the final passage of the Rhetoric:
Asyndeton may be contrasted with syndeton and polysyndeton, which describe the use of one or multiple coordinating conjunctions, respectively.
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