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Omission & Flow

Brachylogia

brak-ih-LOH-jee-uh / ˌbrækɪˈloʊdʒiə

Extreme compression: single words strung together without connectives. Each word gets a full beat, and the missing grammar reads as urgency or command.

"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.

Drill its family — Omission & Flow

In the Reader — 1 excerpt

The bull was squared on all four feet to be killed, and Romero killed directly below us. He killed not as he had been forced to by the last bull, but as he wanted to. He profiled directly in front of the bull, drew the sword out of the folds of the
— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises · open the passage →

The rest of the family

Asyndeton Polysyndeton Ellipsis Aposiopesis Enjambment