polysyndeton
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See also: Polysyndeton
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Medieval Latin polysyndeton, itself from Byzantine Greek πολυσύνδετον (polusúndeton, literally “many connected”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pɒlɪˈsɪndɪtɒn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
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Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) |
polysyndeton (countable and uncountable, plural polysyndetons or polysyndeta)
- (rhetoric) The use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence.
- 2002, Robert Baird Shuman, editor, Great American Writers: Twentieth Century, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 668:
- [Hemingway] often employs a variety of polysyndeton—a frequent use of conjunctions, most notably “and”—linking elements in a sentence together in a way that implies all parts are of equal importance, while in fact one unit of the series may be much more significant than the others.
Antonyms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence
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