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Polysyndeton

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Polysyndeton 

a sentence structure in which all or almost all homogeneous words or clauses are connected by the same conjunction (in Russian, most often by i, “and”). Usually, only the last two homogeneous members of a sentence are linked by a conjunction. Polysyndeton is used to emphasize the close relatedness of the connected words or clauses. Polysyndeton was frequently used in Russian folk songs (most often with the Rus-sian conjunction a, “and,” “but”). [16-1111-^]
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Doody analyzes Hemingway's polysyndeton within the overall narrative structure Of The Sun Also Rises, and more specifically with respect to the voice of the first person narrator, lake: There was a crowd of kids watching the car, and the square was hot, and the trees were green, and the flags hung on their staffs, and it was good to get out of the sun and under the shade of the arcade that runs all the way around the square.
Not so true, not so simple: the Spanish translations of The Sun Also ... by Rodriguez-Pazos, Gabriel / The Hemingway Review
No model for schoolboys, it is, to borrow Leigh Fermor's epithet for Robert Byron, "uncircumspect"--a prolix, run-on, spendthrift style, rife with exclamation marks and polysyndeton.
Philhellene's progress: Patrick Leigh Fermor by Downing, Ben / New Criterion
 
 
 
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