His Sentence:
It was blue when the sun hit it one way, and purple when the sun hit it another way, and sometimes green and yellow.
from feed by M.T. Anderson.
Anderson's use of polysyndeton in this sentence spaces out the sentence to emphasize detail. The reader has a better understanding of what the character was thinking because of this rhetorical device.
My sentence:
The water was clear when I looked at it from above, and blue when I looked at it from the side, and sometimes purple and green.
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