The Greek term ‘syndeton’ refers to connection.

When you add ‘poly-‘ to ‘syndeton’ the resulting word means many connections.

Polysyndeton (pah-lee-SIN-di-ton)
“Maggie and Millie and Molly and Mae…” (e.e. cummings)

“And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.” (King James version of the Bible. Genesis 7:22-24)

"[The train] came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running though the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right of way and sucking it back again wire and post mile on mile into the darkness after where the boilersmoke disbanded slowly along the faint new horizon and the sound came lagging and he stood still holding his hat in his hands in the passing ground shudder watching it till it was gone." (Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses)

"Tender as my years may be," said Caspian, "I believe I understand the slave trade from within quite as well as your Sufficiency. And I do not see that it brings into the islands meat or bread or beer or wine or timber or cabbages or books or instruments of music or horses or armour or anything else worth having." C. S. Lewis, "The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader'" (Book 3 in The Chronicles of Narnia)

When you add the prefix ‘a-‘ to ‘syndeton’ the resulting word means without any connections.

Asyndeton (uh-SIN-di-ton)

“Veni, vidi, vici.” (Julius Caesar) (“I came, I saw, I conquered.”)

"We must... hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends." (U.S. Declaration of Independence)

"Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That--that's about it." (Bubba in Forrest Gump, 1994)

"Cold; tempest; wild beasts in the forest. It is a hard life. Their houses are built of logs, dark and smoky within. There will be a crude icon of the virgin behind a guttering candle, the leg of a pig hung up to cure, a string of drying mushrooms. A bed, a stool, a table. Harsh, brief, poor lives." (Angela Carter, "The Werewolf." The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, 1979)