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Polysyndeton
What is it?



Examples
  • "Oh, my piglets, we are the origins of war -- not history's forces, nor the times, nor justice, nor the lack of it, nor causes, nor religions, nor ideas, nor kinds of government -- not any other thing. We are the killers."
    -- delivered by Katherine Hepburn (from the movie The Lion in Winter)
  • "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good."
    -- Genesis 1:24-25
  • "In years gone by, there were in every community men and women who spoke the language of duty and morality and loyalty and obligation."
    -- William F. Buckley

Answer

Employing many conjunctions between clauses, often slowing the tempo or rhythm.