Associations to the word «Polysyndeton»

Wiktionary

POLYSYNDETON, noun. (rhetoric) The use of many conjunctions to achieve an overwhelming effect in a sentence.

Dictionary definition

POLYSYNDETON, noun. Using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy').

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne