Writers like to use parataxis in their writing because it works to give the words or phrases equal weight in the passage. However, while most parataxis phrases will omit the conjunctions completely, 'and' and 'but' are considered acceptable.

How do you use parataxis in a sentence?

"I came, I saw, I conquered" is an example of both asyndeton and asyndetic parataxis. Polysyndeton refers to an overabundance of coordinating conjunctions. "He ate beans and he ate rice and he ate burgers and he ate corndogs and he ate fish and he ate cake," is an example of both polysyndeton and syndetic parataxis.

Is parataxis a literary device?

Parataxis (from Greek: παράταξις, "act of placing side by side"; from παρα, para "beside" + τάξις, táxis "arrangement") is a literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences, without conjunctions or with the use of coordinating, but not with subordinating conjunctions.