Hey guys,
so when theres short abrupt sentences its called truncated sentences right
so whats the technique when the sentenses are long and rave on and on without ending
idk what its called
HELP!
I'm not very familiar with HSC English but here are two suggestions(?), I hope it's what you're looking for:
- polysyndeton: a literary technique in which conjunctions (and or but) are used repeatedly in quick successions, without commas, commonly used to change the overall tone of a text (it serves as an intensifier, or it can also be used to bring about the slippery slope notion). For example: There were frowzy fields and cow-houses and dunghills and dustheaps and ditches and gardens and summer-houses and carpet-beating grounds, at the very door of the Railway. (notice the repetitive use of the word "and", which can be omitted replaced by commas - the lack of such conjunctions is called the "asyndeton", the opposite of this literary technique).
- run-on sentences: non-punctuated sentences which can be separated by commas to form independent ideas, but are not separated. These sentences can be long and convoluted, but it isn't necessarily the case. For example: You're not a dick you're nice. or you can rectify your mistakes by using correctly punctuated sentences lacking the ability to come up with sentences with accurate grammar can be dangerous. Instead of "you're not a dick, you're nice", and "you can rectify your mistakes by using correctly punctuated sentences. Lacking the ability to come up with sentences with accurate grammar can be dangerous".
Hope that helps