Pleonasm in Russian Language

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• Varieties of Pleonasm

Varieties of Pleonasm

Pleonasm is a figure of speech that uses redundant words or phrases. Russian language has a number of pleonastic constructions:

• "Addressing to an address"
• "Heading in a specified direction"
• "Using all unused resources" These constructions are examples of c. tautology, where the same idea is expressed twice using different words or phrases.
  Other examples of tautology in Russian:
• "Собственными глазами" (literally "with own eyes")
• "Свободная свобода" ("free freedom")
• "Точное совпадение" ("exact coincidence")