Asyndeton in a sentence as a noun

If you leave "and" out -- asyndeton -- and list things, they will be understood to be in temporal sequence if they are the sort of thing that occur that way. "I opened the door.

Another common one is the comma splice, which isn't an error as long as you know to call it asyndeton or parataxis.

Were I making legal arguments on this case, I would research whether this kind of asyndeton was a common construction in Maine state law.

Yeah, the NYT article doesn't address the argument regarding asyndeton, which is the omission of a conjunction at the end of a list.

There is however a rhetorical term for the construction: asyndeton.

Asyndeton definitions

noun

the omission of conjunctions where they would normally be used