Then follows, introduced by a kind of polysyndeton (wekhi. From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
I'm fond of the polysyndeton, myself. trillwing commented at 4:24 PM~. From Wordnik.com. [Ferule & Fescue] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Conversing With the Right] Reference
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 inventions of man. From Wordnik.com. [The Syntax of Style] Reference
Furthermore, I have documented proof that several have openly advocated polysyndeton!. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1] Reference
(Teachers College Press, 1975), which is not familiar to me, has provided not only a study that is revealing but a readable introduction for any who are interested in how style can be analyzed: I have not seen such a clear exposition of polysyndeton, asyndeton, and other rhetorical devices since reading Barr's Introduction to my textbook copy of The Orations of Cicero (where all the examples are, of course, in Latin). From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 4] Reference
229 James is not yet able to create distinctive voices for her characters, and she chooses not to emulate CB's complex manipulations of parallelism, polysyndeton, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
Times’s review of critic James Wood’s How Fiction Works and ran across this term, a rhetorical term, I suppose: Biblical polysyndeton, “a series of conjunctions, making for torrential sentences.”. From Wordnik.com. [Let’s Get Biblical « Exile on Ninth Street] Reference
Note: Can you spot the polysyndeton?. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Enumeratio] Reference
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