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True or False:
Asyndetons have many conjuctions.
What is False (asyndetons have no conjunctions)?
"Reduce, Reuse, Recycle"
What is Asyndeton?
"I raised my streaming face and looked unbelieving at the ear doctor and the ear doctor’s nurse." (On Writing, Stephen King)
What is Polysyndeton?
Asyndeton
What is A sentence without conjuctions?
Polysyndeton
What is A sentence with many conjunctions?
"I said, ‘Who killed him?’ and he said, ‘I don’t know who killed him but he’s dead all right,’ and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights and windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was all right only she was full of water." (After The Storm, Ernest Hemingway)
What is Polysyndeton?
"...that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." (John F. Kennedy)
What is Asyndeton?
Asyndetons and polysyndetons are what device?
What is Rhetorical device?
True or False:
Only asyndetons place an emphasis on a series of words.
What is False (polysyndetons do, too)?
What is the Greek meaning of polysyndeton?
What is
Poly: "many" or "much"
Syndeton: from the word "sundeton," meaning "a bond"
"These griefs, these woes, these sorrows make me old" (Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)
What is Asyndeton?
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
What is Syndeton?
"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
What is Polysyndeton?
What is the Greek meaning of Asyndeton?
What is
A: "not," "none," "absence of"
Syndeton: from the word "sundeton," meaning "a bond"
True or False:
Polysyndetons are more common than asyndetons.
What is True?