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... Is there a literary term for.... when a phrase contains a redundant term, for example "very unique" "baby kitten" etc.,
Thanks David
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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 Dept. of Pleonasm Dept. Iowa City, IA http://members.aol.com/tsuwm
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Tsuwm, Have you moved, and changed your residence?
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