كَانَ الْجِسْرُ مَكْسُورًا وَكَانَ الطَّرِيقُ مَسْدُودًا.
The bridge was broken, and the road was blocked.
The broken bridge and blocked road have an intelligible relation, possibly one of cause and effect; the context can thus support a rational connecting feature. By contrast, two otherwise unrelated objects repeatedly encountered together—such as a particular lamp and tent in a narrative—may become associated in memory, creating an imaginative link.
Such association is not meaningless: it belongs to the hearer's habitual mental imagery. It should nevertheless not be mistaken for a real causal relation between the objects.