Post Tagged with: "“many ands”"

• February 26, 2021 / Posts

  Polysyndeton: a New Tray

  Oh look, they’re bringing out a new tray of food to the serving island. Let’s go see what it is, shall we. 8 Charity never faileth: but 1 whether 2 [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether 2 [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether 2 [there be] knowledge, it […]

   
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• February 13, 2021 / Posts

  Polysyndeton: The Appetizer

  Polysyndeton: The Appetizer. Previously we saw the figure of speech Polysyndeton in the use of TOO many conjunctions, or beyond the normal use. I have heard it said that the Bible was written on an elementary school level, and that its writers were not as well educated as we are […]

   
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• January 30, 2021 / Posts

  Polysyndeton: there’s a whole in the bucket.

  Continuing on in our adventure of discovering new vistas of Polysyndeton, we note that examples of this figure abound throughout scripture. Neither the Old nor the New Testament are at a loss for examples. In fact, it is one of the very first figures God uses in His word. We […]

   
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• January 23, 2021 / Posts

  Poly-which-a-ma-callit

  Previously we took a look at the figure Anaphora, noting that it is the repetition of the same word or words at the beginning of successive sentences, clauses, or perhaps even phrases. If we should come upon paragraphs that repeat with the same word or words, we can note that […]

   
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