Stylistic devices: Tautology

Stylistic devices: Tautology

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What is Tautology?

Tautology is a statement that says the same thing twice in different ways or a statement that is unconditionally true by the way it is phrased.

Examples of tautology

• Forward planning.
• It’s a free gift.
• The mobile phone is a new innovation.
• In my point of view, it is completely useless.
• These are necessary essentials.
• My first priority is to buy food for the children.
• Socrates is either mortal or he’s not.

List of Figures of Speech in the English Language – Literary Devices
Accumulation	Climax	Metalepsis
Adjunction	Dysphemism	Metaphor
Adnomination	Ellipsis	Metonymy
Alliteration	Euphemism	Simile
Allusion	Epigram	Synecdoche
Anaphora	Epiphora (or epistrophe)	Tautology
Antanaclasis	Hyperbole	Understatement
Anticlimax	Hypophora	Zeugma and syllepsis
Antiphrasis	Irony
Antithesis	Litotes
Apostrophe	Oxymoron
Assonance	Personification
Cataphora	Puns
Chiasmus	Merism

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