You’ve got hendiadys, and you’re going to die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although it sounds like a terminal avian disease, hendiadys just is a rhetorical term which the Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as:

 

“the expression of an idea by the use of usually two independent words connected by and (such as nice and warm) instead of the usual combination of independent word and its modifier (such as nicely warm).”

 

A Glossary and Terminology Bank at BusinessBalls derisively describes it as:

 

“a sort of tautology which for dramatic effect or emphasis expresses two aspects or points separately rather than by (more obviously and efficiently) combining them, for example: ‘The rain and wet fell incessantly...’ "

 

Of course, it has a page at Wikipedia. (Dr.) Jim Anderson has an article mentioning it at The Accidental Communicator on May 25, 2021 titled Using rhetorical devices to make a speech better. Beth Black also mentions it in her article titled The Crafting of Eloquence on pages 22 to 25 in the October 2019 issue of Toastmaster magazine.

 

There is a 22-page discussion by Elizabeth Fajans and Mary R. Falk at Legal Communication & Rhetoric on October 2020 in an article titled Hendiadys in the Language of the Law.

 

Hendiadys is a combination of two words; hendiatris (also in Wikipedia) of three.

 

The image of Peter Olch pointing at a page is via Images from the History of Medicine.