: Re: Writing "X, Y, and Z" vs "X and Y and Z." Example: The forest was so dense I was practically swimming through it. A dark, murky ocean of shrubs, trees, and bamboo shoots. The

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I don't know how to give a quick summary of its effects. So I'll offer some terminology to aid your research.

That technique is called polysyndeton. Wikipedia has a little bit about the effects: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysyndeton
You can also go in the other direction and remove all of the conjunctions. That is called asyndeton: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asyndeton

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