POLYSUNDETON  

連詞多次白用法 Repeated redundant use of connectives.

Hypernym
  • 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.
Miriam 59.

EX: Puttenham 173: And I saw it, and I say it and I will swear it to be true.

REF: Lausberg 686

Greek/Latin: Quint. 9.3.50 uses the Greek term. Others sometimes use acervatio. Commonly used for emphasis. Current in theory and practice. Beda p. 611,10 plysyndeton est oratio multis nexa coniunctionibus, ut is psalmo 'Dominus conservet eum et vivificet eum et beatum faciat eum et emundet in terra animam eius et non tradat eum in manus inimici eius. (Ps 40 (41), 3)

Ancient Chinese: Occasionally used, well worth studying.

    Rhetorical device locations: 1
    • 論語 子罕言利與命與仁。

      利與命與仁