CONGERIES  

堆砌同義詞法 ACCUMULATIO: Indiscriminate piling up of synonymous expressions merely for emphasis.

Hypernym
  • ACCUMULATIOREPETITIO of the same basic semantic content in a series of semantically distinct but near-synonymous expressions. Synonym compounds in Chinese are a simple form of this, but the rhetorical accumulation of basically undistinguished synonyms which in the West has notoriously peaked in Rabelais, has never caught on in Chinese prose as far as I know. An egregious case of this in Zhuangzi 2 has not found many early imitators, it seems, but the mode has come to flourish in 賦 rhyme prose.
    • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
      • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
EX: Cic. pro Lig. 3.9 ...qui sensus erat armorum tuorum? quae tua mens, oculi, manus, ardor animi? quid cupiebas? quid optabas?

REF: Lausberg 406

Greek/Latin: Current, and commonly discussed in the rhetorical literature. Quint. 8.4.26 potest ascribi amplificationi congeries quoque verborum ac sententiarum idem significantium.

Ancient Chinese: Quite rare.

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