Polysyndeton (from Ancient Greek πολύ poly, meaning "many", and συνδετόν syndeton, meaning "bound together with".) is the deliberate insertion of conjunctions...

Asyndeton may be contrasted with syndeton (syndetic coordination) and polysyndeton, which describe the use of one or multiple coordinating conjunctions...

other than what they ordinarily signify. An example of a scheme is a polysyndeton: the repetition of a conjunction before every element in a list, whereas...

Conjunctions such as "and" are habitually used in place of commas; a use polysyndeton that conveys immediacy. Hemingway's polysyndetonic sentence—or in later...

unhappy, wretched, hateful day! — Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 4.4 Polysyndeton is the use of more conjunctions than strictly needed. This device is...

bread, cheese, and ham". Asyndeton, coordination without conjunctions Polysyndeton, coordination with many conjunctions "syndeton - definition and examples...

conjunctions Genitive connector Logical conjunction Logical disjunction Polysyndeton Relativizer Serial comma – the comma used immediately before a coordinating...

we are." John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961. Polysyndeton Polysyndeton is the use of several conjunctions in close succession. This provides...

Figure of speech Rhetoric Hypozeuxis Antanaclasis Anaphora Pun Syndeton Polysyndeton Tom Swifty Liddell, H. G. & al. A Greek-English Lexicon. "ζεῦγμα". Perseus...

particular, historian Sonia Rose de Fuggle analyzes Díaz's over-reliance on polysyndeton (which mimics the sentence structure of many Biblical stories) as well...