Read the following passage from Mark Twain's "The War Prayer":

[F]or our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet!
Which rhetorical device is demonstrated in this passage?

A.
Polysyndeton

B.
Anaphora

C.
Polyptoton

D.
Asyndeton

A. Polysyndeton