Polysyndeton
The polysyndeton ( plural polysyndeta ; from Greek πολύς polys "much", σύνδετος syndetos " bound together") is a rhetorical figure from the group of word combinations .
The opposite of this is the asyndeton as 'unconnected'. The polysyndeton - the "much connected" - is an accumulation of connecting particles between coordinated parts of sentences, i. That is, a connection between word and sentence series is made by repeated unusual repetition of the same conjunction. Effect: Emphasis on a sentence or fact by inhibiting the progress of the speech.
Examples
- Unity and Law and Freedom ( German National Anthem )
- So Joshua took, and all Israel with him, Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the cloak, and the rod of gold, and his sons and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his flocks, and his tent, and everything. what he had, and they brought her up into the valley of Achor. ( Joshua , Jos 7,24 EU )
- And it waves and boils and roars and hisses. ( Friedrich Schiller : The Diver )
- And it grows and grows and wolfs and strangles. ( Basil Frei : Teutoburger Ha / ein )
- And each takes and gives at the same time and flows and rests. ( Conrad Ferdinand Meyer : The Roman Fountain )
See also
literature
- Heinrich Lausberg : Handbook of literary rhetoric. A foundation of literary studies. 3rd edition, with a foreword by Arnold Arens . Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05503-7 , §§ 686 f., P. 345.
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard M. Meyer : German stylistics. 2nd, improved and increased edition. Beck, Munich 1913, § 105, p. 100.