Post Tagged with: "Asyndeton"

March 6, 2021 / Posts

Polysyndeton And A Syndeton Roll

Well, our meal is almost finished, but now I have a taste for dessert. I remember coming here with the folks and having the hot apple pie with vanilla on top. “Good enough to die for”, as they say. But I never had to, because the folks always seemed to […]
February 21, 2021 / Posts

Polysyndeton’s Quiet Dinner Guest

Polysyndeton: Shhhh. In verses 1-3 we saw the figure Polysyndeton used, and in more than one way. In verses 4-8 we see Polysyndeton’s counterpart, Asyndeton, which is the absence of conjunctions. With Polysyndeton more conjunctions are used than is normal. With Asyndeton we have the opposite, or less conjunctions than […]

Polysyndeton And A Syndeton Roll