Pleonasm

The redundant use of extra words which repeat rather than expand meaning, such as ‘burning fire’ or ‘a really new innovation’.

A more extensive list of literary terms, with quotations from fiction and non-fiction sources showing the terms in use, is included in The Right Word: A Writer’s Toolkit of Grammar, Vocabulary and Literary Terms (Bloomsbury 2021) 

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