Pleonasm Definition | What is Pleonasm? - PoetrySoup
Definition
[n] using more words than necessary; "a tiny little child"
The use of unnecessary or superfluous words. Poets often fall into this trap when trying to pad out a metrical line e.g. the clown's song from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.
See Also...
verboseness, verbosity
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