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	Thinking Cap #11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A polysyndeton is one of nearly 200 figures of speech that God uses in His Word to add force to what He is trying to tell us.
		The opposite of a polysyndeton is an asyndeton, where a succession of clauses is found, each important but coming one after the other to hurry the reader to the climax at the end.
		The list ("the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind") uses the asyndeton figure of speech and is thus hurried over to focus attention on the blessing promised at the end of the sentence.
	www.gmau.org /ThinkingCaps/tcap11.htm (434 words)

	Book Report on Polysyndeton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
		How polysyndeton in Earnest Hemingway’s books helps to stress the meaning he is trying to get across.
	www.newessay.com /database/Polysyndeton-123184.html (173 words)

	BGreek: Titus 1:7 -- Polysyndeton?
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		of MH an example of polysyndeton (see BDF #460.3) or is it
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	polysyndeton - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Polysyndeton : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Polysyndeton : Glossary of Literary Terms [home, info]
		Polysyndeton : Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples [home, info]
	onelook.com /?w=polysyndeton&ls=a (216 words)

	Polysyndeton
		This is the definition of the term Polysyndeton
		Polysyndeton (n.) A figure by which the conjunction is often repeated, as in the sentence, "We have ships and men and money and stores." Opposed to asyndeton.
		For people who have trouble spelling, this is the defintion of the term Polysyndeton
	linkspider.serversystems.net /dictionary/lookup/polysyndeton (86 words)

	Geoffrey Nunberg -The Politics of Polysyndeton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But even so, you're about five times as likely to encounter this pattern on conservative sites like the National Review and townhall.com as on liberal sites like The Nation or the American Prospect.
		Of course it isn't as if polysyndeton has an inherently political meaning, or any inherent meaning at all.
		The estimate of a five-fold difference between conservatives and liberals is based on about 100 occurrences of (true) polysyndeton in numerous political commentaries, but there are too many confounds to consider it exact.
	www-csli.stanford.edu /~nunberg/polysyndeton.html (1809 words)

	A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
		We certainly have within us the image of some person, to whom our love and veneration look, in whose smile we find our happiness, for whom we yearn, towards whom we direct our pleadings, in whose anger we are troubled and waste away.
		We have not power, nor influence, nor money, nor authority; but a willingness to persevere, and the hope that we shall conquer soon.
		Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
	www.virtualsalt.com /rhetoric.htm (18053 words)

	Define polysyndeton : powered by In Dictionary (InDicitonary.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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		"Polysyndeton" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
	www.indictionary.com /define/polysyndeton (275 words)

	Anthony's Poetry
		Aut, ut grammatici, studes ut sic talia dicas: Versu syntaxis quid, precor, est in eo?
		(Ecce chiasmus adest versiculo croceo!) En, polysyndeton (estne prosodia recta?) videtur: Illud spondeum dactylicumve legis?
		Here there seems to be polysyndeton (is the meter right?): Do you read that as a spondee or a dactyl?
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	polysyndeton : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		polysyndeton : Definition from the Online Dictionary at Datasegment.com
		2 definitions found polysyndeton - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Polysyndeton *\Pol`ysyn"deton\*, n.
		[1913 Webster] polysyndeton - WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) : polysyndeton n : using several conjunctions in close succession, especially where some might be omitted (as in `he ran and jumped and laughed for joy')
	onlinedictionary.datasegment.com /word/Polysyndeton (87 words)

	666: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Revelation chapter 13 is a clear example of a polysyndeton (a number of statements linked together by "and").
		This chapter contains two visions relating to two Beasts: the first, the Antichrist; the second, the "False Prophet." The first is the false Christ, and the second is the false -- and satanic counterfeit of the Holy Ghost.
		The second is marked, like the first, by the figure of Polysyndeton.
	halharless.home.comcast.net /papers/beast.htm (16546 words)

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