It literally means "straight line". Series of elements aligned in a row, one after the other. Usually used in sense of disapproval towards those elements.
It is a series of phrases or words that say in string or string, as if it were a prayer or poem. Series, String, list, litany, rosario, retajila.
String is a text in which words are accommodated in logic and orderly, sensible manner in many cases forming children's verses to be used as games. EJ. Don bandolero pepito is got into a hat, the hat was straw and is put in a box...
the retahilaes a play on words typically child that benefits the verbal mechanics as well as attention and memory
Litany: game of words with chained phrases