AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
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Revise: Act 3The repetition of “millions” and the repeated conjunction “and” — polysyndeton — make the scale seem to expand as he speaks.
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GCSE English Literature · key term
The repeated use of conjunctions such as ‘and’ to connect words or phrases, often creating emphasis or a sense of accumulation.
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Paper 2
Revise: Act 3The repetition of “millions” and the repeated conjunction “and” — polysyndeton — make the scale seem to expand as he speaks.
Paper 2
The repeated use of conjunctions, such as ‘and’, between words or phrases, often creating an accumulating or insistent effect.
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The repeated “and” is polysyndeton: it heaps unpleasant substances together, making the scene feel overwhelming. Pip imagines the dirt sticking to him. His attempt to escape it takes him towards Newgate Prison, where a man offers access to trials and shows him the Debtors’ Door, through which condemned prisoners emerge for hanging.
The deliberate repetition of conjunctions, such as ‘and’, to connect a sequence of words or clauses.
The repeated use of conjunctions, such as ‘and’, which can create accumulation, emphasis or a particular pace.
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The repetition of conjunctions, such as the repeated ‘and’ in ‘Thought and feeling and soul and sense’.
Revise: NowThe repeated ‘and’, known as polysyndeton, keeps adding another dimension, suggesting that no part of the person should be left out.
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The use of repeated conjunctions, such as ‘and’, to link words or phrases.
Revise: The NurseThe Nurse begins, ‘Your love says, like an honest gentleman’, but continues listing Romeo’s qualities before abruptly asking about Juliet’s mother. Her repeated ‘and’ is polysyndeton: it strings together praise and prolongs Juliet’s wait for the actual message. The unfinished sentence and sudden change of subject make the delay especially comic.
The repetition of conjunctions, such as ‘and’, between words or phrases, often to create emphasis or an accumulating rhythm.
The deliberate repetition of conjunctions, such as ‘and’, between successive words or phrases, often to give each item emphasis.