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  2. Polysyndeton - Wikipedia

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    Polysyndeton (from Ancient Greek πολύ poly "many" and συνδετόν syndeton "bound together with") [1] is the deliberate insertion of conjunctions into a sentence for the purpose of "slow[ing] up the rhythm of the prose" so as to produce "an impressively solemn note."

  3. Asyndeton - Wikipedia

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    Asyndeton may be contrasted with syndeton (syndetic coordination) and polysyndeton, which describe the use of one or multiple coordinating conjunctions, respectively. More generally, in grammar , an asyndetic coordination is a type of coordination in which no coordinating conjunction is present between the conjuncts.

  4. Syndeton - Wikipedia

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    Syndeton (from the Greek συνδετόν "bound together with") or syndetic coordination in grammar is a form of syntactic coordination of the elements of a sentence (conjuncts) with the help of a coordinating conjunction.

  5. C Sharp (programming language) - Wikipedia

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    C# (/ ˌ s iː ˈ ʃ ɑːr p / see SHARP) [b] is a general-purpose high-level programming language supporting multiple paradigms.C# encompasses static typing, [16]: 4 strong typing, lexically scoped, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, [16]: 22 object-oriented (class-based), and component-oriented programming disciplines.

  6. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Asyndeton – the deliberate omission of conjunctions that would normally be used. Audience – real, imagined, invoked, or ignored, this concept is at the very center of the intersections of composing and rhetoric. Aureation – the use of Latinate and polysyllabic terms to "heighten" diction.

  7. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    An example of a scheme is a polysyndeton: the repetition of a conjunction before every element in a list, whereas the conjunction typically would appear only before the last element, as in "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"—emphasizing the danger and number of animals more than the prosaic wording with only the second "and".

  8. List of complexity classes - Wikipedia

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    A representation of the relation among complexity classes. This is a list of complexity classes in computational complexity theory. For other computational and complexity subjects, see list of computability and complexity topics. Many of these classes have a 'co' partner which consists of the complements of all languages in the original class ...

  9. C Sharp 2.0 - Wikipedia

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    As a precursor to the lambda functions introduced in C# 3.0, C#2.0 added anonymous delegates. These provide closure-like functionality to C#. [3] Code inside the body of an anonymous delegate has full read/write access to local variables, method parameters, and class members in scope of the delegate, excepting out and ref parameters.