Syntaxis

This article is about language style. For meanings in geology, see wiktionary:syntaxis. For Ptolemy's Mathematical Syntaxis, see Almagest.

Syntaxis (contrasted to parataxis) is style in writing or in rhetoric that favors complex syntax, as against simple sentence structures. For example, 19th-century German academic prose, and John Milton's "Paradise Lost" poetry in English are notably syntactic.

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