Schesis onomaton

Schesis onomaton ("state of nouns", from Ancient Greek σχέσις [skhésis, "state, condition, attitude"] and ὀνομάτων [onomátōn, "of nouns"]), often misspelled scesis onomaton, was originally a rhetorical technique consisting of a sentence constructed only of nouns and adjectives. It later came to mean such a series of nouns and adjectives or any series of words that were synonymous expressions. In the second sense it is a rhetorical technique used to emphasize an idea by repeating it rapidly using slightly different words that have the same or a very similar meaning.

Examples of first meaning
"A man faithful in friendship, prudent in counsels, virtuous in conversation, gentle in communication, learned in all liberal sciences, eloquent in utterance, comely in gesture, an enemy to naughtiness, and a lover of all virtue and godliness."

- Peacham

Examples of second meaning
"Wendy lay there, motionless in a peaceful slumber, very still in the arms of sleep."

- Robert A. Harris

"A Brief History of Time--Stephen Hawking."