Generally, authors try to avoid tautology examples in their works of literature. From the common examples of tautology above, you can see that some tautological statements are truly ridiculous. It is especially absurd to explain one thing with its own definition (such as Dan Quayle’s quote, “...
More than 400 years later, these words remain an icon of English literature. Shakespeare was a master at conveying big ideas, expressing the dramatic mood in each scene, and he managed to voice it all iniambic pentameter! “I’mwillingto tell you. I’mwantingto tell you. I’mwaitingto ...
However, tautologies are often also used effectively in literature, political speeches, advertising, andeverydayspeech to emphasize something or convey a sense of certainty. For example, while the expression “I saw it with my own eyes” is tautologous (you cannot see something with someone else...
Nevertheless, rare references to tautology in word-formation can be found in the literature, suggesting that tautology may be looked upon as a structural and semantic property of certain types of compounds as well as derivatives, in English and in other languages (Sect. 3). The aim of this ...
This phenomenon, called tautological extension, is illustrated with the aid of seven examples from the literature. It is shown that a contingency version of a universalistic formulation is not necessarily an improvement of the original theory; on the contrary, it could merely be instrumental in ...
While the use of tautologous phrases are less common in both the spoken word and in literature today, the device does still appear from time to time. Writers still use tautology as a device for calling attention to an important portion of the text, or to reinforce a point that may seem ...
Special partial methods are developed in Sections 6 and 7 which yield efficient solutions to two sets of hard examples which defeat existing methods in the literature. Finally, two general approaches in terms of size calculations and composite expressions with symbolic abbreviations which are under ...