Pleonasm is a rhetorical device that involves the use of more words than necessary to convey meaning, often resulting in redundancy. It occurs when a phrase includes unnecessary modifiers or repetitions that do not add to the meaning of the expression. For example, saying "free gift" is a pleonasm because a gift is inherently free. Other common examples include phrases like "true fact" or "ATM machine" (where "machine" is redundant, as "ATM" stands for Automatic Teller Machine).
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