1. Polysyndeton

2. Polysyndeton
is the use of a conjunction between each word, phrase, or clause.
It is a stylistic scheme used to achieve a variety of effects: it can increase the rhythm of prose, speed or slow its pace, convey solemnity or even ecstasy and childlike exuberance.

3. Use polysyndeton to show an attempt to encompass something complex:
The water, like a witch's oils, / Burnt green, and blue, and white. --S. T. Coleridge
[He] pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. --John Milton

4. "But all you have to do is knock on any door and say, 'If you let me in, I'll live the way you want me to live, and I'll think the way you want me to think,' and all the blinds'll go up and all the windows will open, and you'll never be lonely, ever again."
~Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy), Inherit the Wind

5. The multiple conjunctions of the polysyndetic structure call attention to themselves and therefore add the effect of persistence or intensity or emphasis to the other effect of multiplicity. The repeated use of "nor" or "or" emphasizes alternatives; repeated use of "but" or "yet" stresses qualifications. Consider the effectiveness of these:

6. Here are some examples:
And to set forth the right standard, and to train according to it, and to help forward all students towards it according to their various capacities, this I conceive to be the business of a University. --John Henry Newman
We have not power, nor influence, nor money, nor authority; but a willingness to persevere, and the hope that we shall conquer soon.

7. In a skilled hand, a shift from polysyndeton to asyndeton can be very impressive:

8. Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof. And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. --Isaiah 24:1-2 (KJV)