"Lieutenant Aldo Raine") Monty Python and the Holy Grail parodies the biblical writing style using polysyndeton:And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chu[...] Antonym It can be contrasted with asyndeton, which is a coordination containing no conjunctions often manipulating the rhythm of a passage in the attempt to make a thought more memorable, and syndeton, which is a coordination with one conjunction. Two examples of asyndeton: "Veni, vidi, vici" (Julius Caesar) "We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardships, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty." (John F. Kennedy, inaugural address, 1961) An example of syndeton: "You are talking to a man who has laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe". (The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz, 1939) Citations General and cited sources Baldrick, Chris. 2008. Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford University Press. New York. Corbett, Edward P. J. and Connors, Robert J. 1999. Style and Statement. Oxford University Press. New York, Oxford. Forsyth, Mark. 2014. The Elements of Eloquence. Berkley Publishing Group/Penguin Publishing. New York. External links Audio illustrations of polysyndeton Figures of speech Grammar Rhetoric