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#27263 04/26/2001 11:18 AM

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Re: Is there a literary term for....

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in Rhetoric, I think this is called a pleonasm, the use of more words than necessary to convey an idea (not to be confused with a tautology, needless repetition of an idea :)

tsuwm
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