What is the difference between asyndeton and parataxis?

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Asyndeton- This is a figure of speech that favours the omission of conjuctions. For instance- "I came, I fought, I won" and anything like that. Longinus gives a long example of it in his treatise On The Sublime: "By attitude, by look, by voice, when he acts with insolence, when he acts like an enemy, when he simtes with his fists, when he smites yoiu like a slave." These expressions do not let the reader or the listener relax and give blow after blow to mark an ample imression upon the mind!

Parataxis- This is a term applied to the literary technique to write sentences with proper conjuction marks, just opposite to the term described above. For example, the lines by Julius Caesar:

"I came; I saw; I conquered."

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