fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. . ." Omission of conjunction "or" An asyndeton of "or" before a polysyndeton of "and": "A parson or what looked like one was laboring over the crest of the hill and coming toward them with one hand raised in blessing, greeting, fending flies. He was dressed in a dusty frockcoat and carried a walking stick and he wore a pair of octagonal glasses on the one pane of which the late sun shone while a watery eye peered from the naked wire aperture of the other." (Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark, 1968) See also Apo koinou construction Parataxis (grammar) Reduced relative clause, relative clause not marked by an overt complementizer Zeugma Footnotes Sources Baldrick, Chris. 2008. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford University Press. New York. Corbett, Edward P. J. and Connors, Robert J. 1999. Style and Statement. Oxford University Press. New York, Oxford. Forsyth, Mark. 2014. The Elements of Eloquence. Berkley Publishing Group/Penguin Publishing. New York. External links Asyndetic Coordination @ The Internet Grammar of English Audio illustrations of asyndeton Rhetorical techniques Figures of speech Grammar