Polysyndeton

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• What is the polysyndeton for?
• Examples of polysyndeton

The polysyndeton it is a rhetorical figure that consists of the unnecessary repetition of conjunctions to reinforce the expressiveness of a text. For example: The roses Y camellias Y the daisies Y carnations Y hydrangeas Y all of them decorated the beautiful garden.

Conjunctions or links are words that are used to link words, phrases or sentences. In an enumeration, conjunctions usually link the last two elements, while the previous ones are separated with a comma. For example: There were salads, pasta, roast and thousands of cheeses.

In the polysyndeton, more conjunctions are used than usual, which creates a sense of emphasis. Following the same example: There were salads and pasta and roast and thousands of cheeses.

The opposite figure to the polysyndeton is the asyndeton, which supposes the omission of the conjunctions instead of their profusion.

Some conjunctions that can be used are:

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What is the polysyndeton for?

The goal of polysyndeton is to slow down to emphasize each word in an enumeration and increase its intensity. It can produce solemnity, heartbreak, anger, gravity. For example: The gray night Y cold Y gloomy Y heavy Y angry Y sad Y lonely.

Although it is usually very effective, it is important not to abuse this resource since it can be annoying or unsightly.

Sometimes in the same sentence you can use a conjunction or more than one. For example: The soft Y sweet summer breeze, even though tibia, even though distant, even though the days moved with heaviness, Y the nights, Y the mornings, Ythen the afternoons, Ythen the nights again ...

Examples of polysyndeton

1. It was 4 Y then 5 Y then 6 Y then 4 again ...
2. Despite of what already I didn't love you, I still loved you. Although already I didn't see you, I saw you and I loved you. Although already I didn't adore you, I adored you, I loved you and I saw you. Although already I didn't love you, I loved you, I loved you, I saw you and I adored you.
3. After of your words, after of your kiss, after of your tears, after of your departure after of everything, there is nothing left.
4. Even though be a starry night, even though be a minute of your time, even though let it be an instant, even though be eternity in a breath of time.
5. I had no excuses but had them. I had no reason but had them. It did not make sense, but I had it. I had no reasons but yet he had them.
6. Ideas came to mind so that they could dump them on paper, so that they published a book, so that they sold thousands of publications, by way of who kept writing, so that their lives would change forever.
7. His eyes wept tears of unrequited love, Y his heart broken by fear, and yesus dreams broken into a thousand pieces, Y her desire to change the world with her, Y his fantasies of eternal love were broken, Y his sad soul began to walk again, Y to walk, Y soon I no longer remembered that pain, Y He kept walking and found another love Y another objection, Y his heart began to mend, Y his desire to dream again returned, Y his dreams took shape, Y force again, Y his life gradually began to repair itself.
8. Seagulls Y the swallows Y then the pigeons Y then the pelicans Y then the toucans Y then the sparrows migrated to happier lands.
9. They bought their freedom for to be able to dream a new world, for leave a mark, for leave a trail, for start a path where others can walk, and thus leave their own footprints, for walk your own path ...
10. Y I arrived Y I thought Y i understood Y i felt Y i lived Y I died
11. Y you are no longer close to those shadows, Y you are miles away, Y an ocean separates you from that abyss, Y how much water has passed, Y how far have you traveled Y everything, everything has been forgotten.
12. I do not want neither lie, neither cheat, neither cries, neither suffer.
13. So as the rain falls, So my trust in you has fallen. So as the night comes and then the day, So happiness will return to me. So how have you stopped being, So It is how I will be reborn again.
14. I hear you, Y can you hear me, Y I speak to you, Y you talk to me, Y I look at you, Y you look at me, Y I understand you, Y you understand me.
15. After of the path traveled, after of the starry night, after from the storm, after of the aroma of wet earth, after of the days, after of the warm nights.
16. Y I knew it was the wind in my face Y sea ​​breeze, Y the soft caresses of the wind, Y waves Y the radiant sun burning my skin.
17. I love u why I think about you, I love you why I love you, I think about you why I love you I miss you why I have not forgotten you, I imagine you why in my dreams you keep calling me
18. Y when everything seemed to be lost, Y when the minutes had turned into hours Y the days into months, Y Decades into centuries, right at that moment, it all made sense.
19. I like to play with my friends, Y with my cousins, Y with my dogs, Y with my neighbors Y with my schoolmates.
20. What judge me, what think about me, what love me what you forget or what Remember me, nothing makes sense to me anymore
21. All right you want me, good you think about me, good you look for me, good you love me and good you love Me.
22. Always I want to travel in my dreams, whenever I want I close my eyes and glide in the skies of my illusions, always what i think, always what flight and always that I achieve my chimeras, always I want to start that flight again.
23. Y I stopped thinking Y I stopped suffering Y I stopped regretting Y I started to live
24. How a dove, as an eagle, as such a hawk soars my soul today.
25. Already dawned, already the sun came out, already the day began to walk, already the morning has come with its sweet awakening, already the hours pass and the sun is high, already my time passes and the evening will come. Already the minutes dance, already the afternoon is here, already the birds prepare for their sweet rest, already the night is coming, already another day has to pass.

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