Omission & Flow

Brachylogia

brak-ih-LOH-jee-uh / ˌbrækɪˈloʊdʒiə

Compressing expression by omitting words or conjunctions that would normally connect its parts. The shortened wording may sound terse or urgent.

"We real cool. We / Left school." — Gwendolyn Brooks

Don't confuse it with Asyndeton. Asyndeton omits conjunctions between phrases or clauses; brachylogia does it between bare words.

Examples

Bread, milk, eggs—nothing else.

Practice example · written for this exercise

The compressed list consists of single words with no conjunctions.