Tautologia (tau to LO gi a; G. "saying the same things")
Repetition of the same idea in different words:
Lepidus. What manner o'thing is your crocodile?
Antony. It is shap'd, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it has breadth. It is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.
Lepidus. What colour is it of?
Antony. Of its own colour too.
Lepidus. 'Tis a strange serpent.
Antony. 'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet.
(Antony and Cleopatra, II, vii)
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991
Photo taken in TF Green Airport, Warwick RI
Repetition of the same idea in different words:
Lepidus. What manner o'thing is your crocodile?
Antony. It is shap'd, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it has breadth. It is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs. It lives by that which nourisheth it, and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.
Lepidus. What colour is it of?
Antony. Of its own colour too.
Lepidus. 'Tis a strange serpent.
Antony. 'Tis so. And the tears of it are wet.
(Antony and Cleopatra, II, vii)
A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms, Second Edition, Richard A. Lanham, 1991
Photo taken in TF Green Airport, Warwick RI
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