Polysyndeton

The Polysyndeton (plural Polysyndeta, from Greek πολύς polys " much ", σύνδετος syndetos " tied together " ) is a rhetorical figure of the group of phrases.

The opposite of this is the asyndeton. When Polysyndeton is a frequent reduction of compound particles between coordinated set parts, ie it is performed by repeated unusual repetition of the same conjunct a connection between word and sentence ranks. Effect: an emphasis of a sentence or facts by inhibiting the speech progress.

Examples

• Latin: et ... et ... et ...
• Latin: Nemo sibi tam nobilis visus est, qui ex illo Sacrario quicquam poscere aut aut tollere attingere auderet (Cicero in Verrem 6,11 f)
• Unity and justice and freedom (German National Anthem )
• Since he took Joshua, and all Israel with him, Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had, and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. ( Joshua 7:24 )
• And there wallet and boils and roars and hisses ( Friedrich Schiller: " The Diver " )
• And each takes and gives at the same time and flows and rests. ( Conrad Ferdinand Meyer: The Roman Fountain)

• Rhetorical term