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Is this the opposite of oxymoron?
I do not think so. A oxymoron can be pleonastic, too. The interesting thing I find about both terms is that some take them as negative phenomena. In rhetoric, there is nothing inherently wrong with oxymora or pleonasmata. They are just rhetorical devices like synecdoche or zeugma.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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