Parataxis (from Greek for 'act of placing side by side'; fr. para, beside + tassein, to arrange; contrasted to syntaxis) is a literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentence, often without the use of conjunctions. It is a style much favoured by historians and writers of crime fiction. It is also used to describe a technique in poetry in which two images or fragments, usually starkly dissimilar images or fragments, are juxtaposed without a clear connection. Readers are then left to make their own connections implied by the paratactic syntax. Ezra Pound, in his adaptation of Chinese and Japanese poetry, made the stark juxtaposition of images an important part of English language poetry. Examples Perhaps the most well known use of parataxis is Julius Caesar's famous quote, "Veni; vidi; vici," or, "I came; I saw; I conquered". An extreme example of parataxis is the i

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