Pleonasm
Noun
The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning either as a fault of style or for emphasis. eg. To see with one's own eyes.
However there is a general tendency to mix pleonasm with an oxymoron. An oxymoron is a combination of two contradictory terms. It is the opposite of pleonasm. This is similar to how people mix up synonyms and antonyms.
An oxymoron can by used to give paradoxical meanings. eg Beautifully painful, painfully beautiful, only choice, alone together, run slowly, open secret etc.
There are two typoes of pleonasm: 1. Synactic Pleonasm and 2. Semantic Pleonasm. But that ofcourse is another topic for an indepth grammatical discussion.
Noun
The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning either as a fault of style or for emphasis. eg. To see with one's own eyes.
However there is a general tendency to mix pleonasm with an oxymoron. An oxymoron is a combination of two contradictory terms. It is the opposite of pleonasm. This is similar to how people mix up synonyms and antonyms.
An oxymoron can by used to give paradoxical meanings. eg Beautifully painful, painfully beautiful, only choice, alone together, run slowly, open secret etc.
There are two typoes of pleonasm: 1. Synactic Pleonasm and 2. Semantic Pleonasm. But that ofcourse is another topic for an indepth grammatical discussion.
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