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Multiple choice

What is the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea referred to as?

  1. Rhetoric

  2. Pleonasm

  3. Tautology

  4. Oxymoron

  5. Sarcasm

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B Correct answer
Explanation

Pleonasm is the use of more words than are necessary to express an idea; redundancy.

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