REDUNDANTIA QUADRISYLLABISM  

四字法　artificial creation of four-character phrases/cola.

Hypernym
  • REDUNDANTIAABUNDANTIA in the form of the use of too many words which add no meaning. Ant: BREVITAS
    • ABUNDANTIARHETORICAL STYLE which prefers extensive and expansive, sometimes redundant, use of language.
      • RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
    Rhetorical device locations: 19
    • 百喻經 從座而起

      而 is added to fill out the rhythm.

    • 百喻經 復坐如故。

      復如故

    • 百喻經 以鹽美故而空食之。

      而

    • 百喻經 即便斷食。
    • 百喻經 此亦復爾。

      Both 亦 and 復 would be sufficient by themselves.

    • 百喻經 欲集牛乳，

      賓客 : one of these words would have sufficed. The reference is not specifically to "various kinds of". If it were, we would not diagnose REDUNDANTIA.

    • 百喻經 迎置賓客。
    • 百喻經 而此牛乳即乾無有。

      即乾無有

    • 百喻經 偷王庫物。
    • 百喻經 癡無所知；
    • 百喻經 而問言曰。

      而問言曰

    • 百喻經 喚醫語言：

      產生

    • 百喻經 「我與良藥能使即大；

      醫師

    • 百喻經 始有一子，
    • 百喻經 不欲看樹；
    • 淮南子 亦不求得， 親戚不相毀譽

      求得 is redundant since one cannot very well see what one does not wish to obtain... The quadrisyllabism cultivated here is isolated. Maybe it should not be categorised under quadrisyllabism after all, but it certainly is a case of redundantia.

    • 詩經 言告言歸。
    • 詩經 言告師氏，
    • 賢愚經 見已歡喜，心自思維：

      心 strictly redundant since one cannot think with anything else.