what is paratactic style
(Contrast with hypotaxis .) Adjective: paratactic. Parataxis (also known as the additive style) is sometimes used as a synonym for asyndeton --that is, the coordination of phrases and clauses without coordinating conjunctions. But parataxis can be a contrived, patterned, self-conscious style, one whose syntax can carry. . . an allegorical meaning of its own. 2  It is easy to write a laundry list, but not so easy to write like Hemingway without falling into parody. 3  Try it.. ( 4 Richard A. Lanham, Analyzing Prose, 2nd ed.
Parataxis is a literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences, with the use of coordinating rather than subordinating conjunctions (from Greek for 'act of placing side by side'; from para, 'beside' and tassein, 'to arrange'; contrasted to syntaxis or hypotaxis).erhaps the best known use of parataxis is Julius Caesar's famous laconic phrase,  Veni, vidi, vici  or, I came, I saw, I conquered. Another example is Mr. Jingle's speech in Chapter 2 of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.