Polysyndeton | Word Polysyndeton at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

Then follows, introduced by a kind of polysyndeton (wekhi --
I'm fond of the polysyndeton, myself. trillwing commented at 4:24 PM~
They are great figures of speech as worthy as simile, metaphor, ellipsis, alliteration, polysyndeton, syndoche of part or whole and a hundred others that we use every day.
He explains, for instance, polysyndeton : It is the repeated use of a conjunction, as in Mark Twain ' s a German daily is the slowest and saddest and dreariest of the...

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