Polysyndeton (Poly Sin Di Ton) Polysyndeton is the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause, and is thus structurally the opposite of asyndeton. The rhetorical effect of polysyndeton, however, often shares with that of asyndeton a feeling of multiplicity, energetic enumeration, and building up. • They read and studied and wrote and drilled. I laughed and played and talked and flunked. Use polysyndeton to show an attempt to encompass something complex: • The water, …showed first 75 words of 768 total…

…showed last 75 words of 768 total…no place for me and turned and went striding into the mists and across the fire-tipped clouds to her home." -Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Grey Granite Essay Topics: 1. How polysyndeton in Earnest Hemingway’s books helps to stress the meaning he is trying to get across. 2. A compare and contrast essay on “Could using polysyndeton make your work better or make it worst?” 3. Does using too many conjunctions harm your essays by making them too wordy?