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A sentence style that employs many conjunctions (opposite of asyndeton). Adjective: polysyndetic. See also: ... Place and Polysyndeton in Didion's "Goodbye to All That" ... Polysyndeton in Julie Myerson's "Sad-Grand Moment"
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Employing many conjunctions between clauses, often slowing the tempo or rhythm. ... I said, "Who killed him?" and he said, "I don't know who killed him but he's dead all right," and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights ... asyndeton; The opposite of polysyndeton: an absences of conjunctions.
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Polysyndeton (paulee-SIN-dih-tawn): Figure of addition and emphasis which intentionally employs a series of conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, so, yet) not normally found in successive words, phrases, or clauses;
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Of course it isn't as if polysyndeton has an inherently political meaning, or any inherent meaning at all. The device has been used by everyone from Shakespeare to Lewis Carroll to Bob Dylan to very different purposes.
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Polysyndeton - Definition of Polysyndeton at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Polysyndeton. Look it up now! ... Definition of polysyndeton - 2 dictionary results...
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71, World Literature Today, 01-01-1997, pp 95(4). "...accompanied by the polysyndeton use of "the snow, the silence, the quick love, the astral call oh fly the friendly skies,..."
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Definition of polysyndeton in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of polysyndeton. Pronunciation of polysyndeton. Translations of polysyndeton. polysyndeton synonyms, polysyndeton antonyms. Information about polysyndeton in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. ... [Late Greek polusundeton, from neuter of...
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polysyndeton n. The repetition of conjunctions in close succession for rhetorical effect, as in the phrase here and there and everywhere ... Literary Dictionary: polysyndeton...
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"Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war -- not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government -- not any other thing. ... Polysyndeton ; What is it?
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