HENDIADYS-MINIMAL  

一字重言法 HENDIADYS involving only monosyllabic words.

Hypernym
  • HENDIADYSPLEONASM in two consecutive words. 重言法 The expression of what can be said with one word or expression by the adjacent use of two near-synonymous words or expressions.
    • PLEONASMREPETITIO of the same meaning in the same clause.
      • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
        • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
For the many possible examples of this in early literature see the VPs with the construction type V+V' and the NPs with the construction type N+N', i.e. what modern linguist call synonym compounds. The question is exactly how one determines when the rhetorical figure as become a morphological device.

    Rhetorical device locations: 2