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Home » Dictionary (Glossary) » Pleonasm

Pleonasm

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.

[n] using more words than necessary; "a tiny little child"

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