... - the use of several conjunctions in quick succession. "By doing this, Hemingway maintains the simple, unpretentious nature of his prose while dictating the tone and tempo of his writing. This polysyndeton Hemingway generally directs against the habits and assumptions of perception that organize experience into hierarchies of abstraction, value and time". (Doody 213) The intentionality of Hemingway's ... rarely both (for the opposite example, take Thomas Pynchon, who has managed to almost entirely avoid being photographed since the 1950's). The world reeled with the news. The Louisville...

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