What's the name of this literary device?

Question

What I want to know, and I would really appreciate if someone could tell me - this is why I'm asking this question - is what is the name of a certain device (a literary device), the one that I am, as it happens, using in this sentence, whereby a sentence is prolonged by constantly interposing comments - or ideas - by means of commas (or dashes, or, for that matter, parentheses); all this leading to a very long sentence, which goes round in circles.

Answer 1

You could call this Interpolation--but then it may be pleonasm (the use of superfluous or redundant words, often enriching the thought) in combination with polysyndeton (the repetition of conjunctions in a series of coordinate words, phrases, or clauses --you use OR, and I might even consider extending the dashes to be a form of conjunction, in this instance--) plus it is indeed circumlocution if it goes in circles--though I don't know if it is begging the question if it does not presuppose the conclusion--and could also call this simply a form of run-on sentence (except it is not limited to the "comma splice" --though how limiting is that?) and somehow, you're also achieving coherence through rhythmic repetition, and achieving an identifiable voice and semi-conversational--if stilted--diction; and of course, though I have not covered all the bases, I cannot leave out that you are punctuating a succession of interjections and interpolations...which brings me back to where I started, with interpolation.

That was actually kind of fun. Ok, i must be a sick puppy.

Answer 2

Long-windedness.

Answer 3

The words that apply are REDUNDANCY- saying the same thing over and over and SUPERFLUOUS - saying things that are EXTRANEOUS and UNNECESSARY for meaning comprehension.

Nice job by the way! That was a great example!!

Answer 4

Emily Dickinsonitis or William Faulkneritis. ;)

Answer 5

run-on sentence much?

Answer 6

dilly-dallying.

Answer 7

circumlocutory?