Polysyndeton: No matter how big or soft or warm your bed is, you still have to get out of it. --Grace Slick (parallel adjectives)
Asyndeton: . . . and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. –Gettysburg Address (parallel prepositional phrases)
Polysyndeton: No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit. --Helen Keller (parallel verb phrases)
Asyndeton: Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
--John F. Kennedy (parallel verb phrases)
--John F. Kennedy (parallel verb phrases)
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