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[[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]] in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include these examples:
* ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'':▼
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▲* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'':
* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', because just "carol" alone means "a christmas song".▼
* ''[[Inheritance Cycle (Literature)|Inheritance Cycle]]''▼
{{quote| ''"Sorry", Brom apologized''<br />▼
The "'Az Ragni' means, 'The River.' It has never once been called anything but 'The Az Ragni'.}}
* ''Report on Probability A'' by Brian W Aldiss appears to be based almost exclusively on this trope, to the point of unreadability. The description in Wikipedia says: "The bulk of the book is the Report, describing in minute, obsessive and often repetitive detail, three characters G, S, and C as they secretly watch a house, each from a separate outbuilding with peripheral views of the house's windows, catching occasional glimpses of its occupant, Mrs Mary. As the Report is being read by a character called "Domoladossa'", he is secretly being observed from other universes, and these observers in their turn are being observed, all of them engaged in futile speculation about the exact nature of Probability A, and the exact meaning of the Victorian painting, The Hireling Shepherd (by Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt..." (and so on)
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* ''[[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (
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* ''[[The Bible]]''. "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Gen 1:27" (Why do you think [[Monty Python]] did this in the [[Monty Python and
** Also in Genesis 10:8-9 (NIV) "Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord; that is why it is said, 'Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the Lord.'" Other versions are also redundant, just not as blatantly so.
*** Later scholars found justifications for at least some of these. In one tradition, Genesis 22:2, "Take your son, your only son(often translated as "favored one"), whom you love, Issac..." was necessary because Abraham loved both of his sons.
** This is an exceptionally common style of writing in the Bible, known in Hebrew poetry as 'tikbolet' or parallels. The redundancy is used as a poetic device in the original.
** [[The Book of Mormon (
** The Bible just in general has a lot of stuff along the lines of: "And God told them to go and do ''(insert action here)''. And so they went and did ''(insert action here)''. And God was pleased that they had done ''(insert action here)''. And so God told the people 'I am pleased that you have done ''(insert action here)''.'"
** Some passages seem more redundant than they are simply because of how they're translated. Take the case of the death of Achan. "And all Israel '''stoned''' him with '''stones''', and burned them with fire, after they '''stoned''' them with '''stones'''." The Hebrew, while not removing the redundancy, kicks it back a notch, using two different words for the action of stoning: ''vayir'g'mu'' vs. ''vayis'q'lu''. Not to mention that the word for the stones themselves (''even'' (sing.); ''avanim'' (pl.)) look almost nothing like either of them.
** Proverbs 16:22 "'''Prudence''' is a fountain of life to the '''prudent''', but folly brings punishment to fools."
** The Haggadah, the prayerbook used at the Jewish holiday of Passover, can get pretty bad at points. The first of these three quotes are also part of a rather lengthy segment alternating between short paragraphs and long paragraphs that reiterate each sentence of the short paragraph with a longer explanation, which also might qualify, and all come from the same paragraph.
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* ''[[Dave Barry]] Turns 50'' has a list of "10 Signs That You Might Be Losing It." Number 1: "You tend to forget things." Number 6: "You tend to forget things." Number 10: "You tend to forget things."
** [[Dave Barry]] declares in "The Columnist's Caper": "I have written a suspense novel. It has everything. Sex. Violence. Sex. Death. [[Lzherusskie|Russians]]. Dead Russians."
* Due to being a town in a contested area between two cultures with very different languages, the river crossing of Bengloarafurd Ford in the Dragaera universe has a name that roughly translates to "Ford ford ford ford".
* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
** From ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to
* From the [[So Bad It's Good]] oeuvre of the Reverend Lionel Fanthorpe's [[Extruded Book Product|Extruded Book Products]], in ''A 1000 Years On'' (Writing as John E. Muller):
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** Most of Fanthorpe's [[So Bad It's Good]] work for [[Badger Books]], in fact. He was being paid by the word, after all. Hence the popular UK SF scene [[Light Bulb Joke]]: "How many Fanthorpe pseudonyms does it take to change a lightbulb, to replace it, to reinstate it, to substitute for it, to swap it, to exchange it, to renew it, to put another in its stead, to ..."
** The most famous Fanthorpian example is probably [http://www.peltorro.com/motrtxt.htm Chapter 5] of ''March of the Robots'', which, when all the redundancy has been removed, just says "A saucer-shaped ship landed silently, while the people were still asleep. Mysterious robots marched out of it, and a force-field appeared around it."
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* An erotic novel called "[https://web.archive.org/web/20100324235114/http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/05/25/review-pleasure-2035-by-cameo-brown/#more-12281 Pleasure 2035]", as well as having some truly... [[Anatomically-Impossible Sex|unusual sex scenes]], has this line.
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* In ''[[Discworld]]'', a tourist misreads his Agatean-to-Morporkian translation guide, leading to such statements as:
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'''Innkeeper:''' All that? }}
** Also used to parody buzzwords in self-workplace-help-empowerment-etc. books with ''How to Dynamically Manage People for Dynamic Results in a Caring Empowering Way in Quite a Short Time Dynamically'', which Ponder Stibbons assumed ([[Don't Explain the Joke|in light of the redundancy]]) had been stitched together from quite a few books on the subject.
** In Ankh-Morpork, there's a bridge called Pons Bridge, pons being Latin for... bridge. (sing. obj. nom.)
** ''[[
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*** And from the same novel, on the holy book [[Complete Monster|Vorbis]] was going to write:
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** From the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in ''[[
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rocks
troll's with sticks
All sorts of dragons
Mrs Cake
Huje green things with teeth
Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows
Rains of spaniel's
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Mrs Cake }}
* From ''[[Twilight (
** Also, "Aro started to laugh. "Ha ha ha", he chuckled." (From ''Twilight'', Book the Second.)
** In the third book Bella tells us that vampires are part of a "clandestine world full of myths and monsters that existed secretly."
** At some point mentions Edward's "Relaxed calm".
* In the [[Women of the Otherworld]] novel ''Bitten'' by Kelley Armstrong, there is this line, which is also in another of Kelley Armstrong's works, namely ''Bitten'', which is first in the series [[Women of the Otherworld]], by Kelley Armstrong.
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* ''The Darkest Road'', by Guy Gavriel Kay.
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"At least two of those," Torc agreed gravely. }}
** Not to mention earlier, in ''The Summer Tree'': "Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain." Kay repeats words or phrases for dramatic effect many times during this trilogy, sometimes devastatingly well {{spoiler|(i.e. "And this was the X night of Pwyll the Stranger on the Summer Tree")}} - buuuuuut on the other hand, sometimes he overdoes it a bit.
* ''Hank the Cowdog'' series. "Dust and hay and flakes of dried manure swirled through the air, filling my eyes and nose and mouth with dust and hay and flakes of dried manure that swirled through the air."
* A dead serious variant from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]: A Game Of Thrones'':
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* This was practically [[wikipedia:Gertrude Stein|Gertrude Stein]]'s signature style:
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** How could you forget her most famous line:
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*** "[[Singin' in
** Also "To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write". For some strange reason this never got popular.
** And [[Ernest Hemingway]] retorted: "A bitch is a bitch is a bitch".
* From ''[[This Is the Title of This Story|This Is the Title of This Story, Which Is Also Found Several Times in the Story Itself]]'':
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* <s>Quite a few</s> ''every book'' by Gary Paulsen will repeat itself to no end.
* In the [[Star Wars]] novel ''[[Death Star]]'', Memah Roothes, the new cantina owner, and her bouncer are required to do two physical exam sessions. Memah cites this trope as the reason they have to.
** that may not have been a reference--the Galactic Empire had an ''actual'' Department of Redundancy Department. Nobody seems quite sure whether it actually had a serious job, or Palpatine was feeling whimsical when he created it, so different authors will treat it differently.
* In ''[[Infinite Jest]]'', one of the locations is a drug and alcohol addiction recovery house called ''Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House<ref>Redundancy sic</ref>'', where people go to recover from drug and alcohol addictions in the drug and alcohol recovery house. House.
* ''[[
* ''Fallen'' by Thomas Sniegowski is absolutely ridiculous with this. One example, "I don't know" he said uncertainly. Made worse by the fact that he thanks the 'termineditor' in his foreword. One shudders to think what the book was like before she got to it.
* In the first section of '''1985''', Anthony Burgess refers, apparently without sarcasm, to "the gay homosexuals."
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* ''[[Dave Barry]]'s Book of Bad Songs'' includes lists sent in by a long-time professional musician of the ten most hated requested songs of Top 40 bands and wedding bands. The title "[[Led Zeppelin|Stairway to Heaven]]" is listed 5 times in the former (and "[[Creedence Clearwater Revival|Proud Mary]]" is listed twice), and "New York, New York" is listed 4 times in the latter (including "New York, New York, and I'm the Bride's Father and I Have Your Check Right Here in my Hand So You Better Play It, Dammit").
* Because ancient tales were oral, many of the classics reuse the same descriptions over and over to help the story teller out. When listening or reading the ''Iliad'', by the third ox sacrifice you are going "yes yes, we know how the ox is sacrificed and burnt and made to smell sweet, get on with the story."
* Averted in [[The Icelandic Sagas
* In one version of ''Baba Yaga'':
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* In ''[[Around the World
* This is a problem with many translations of the [[Popol Vuh]], since the original poetry relies on redundancy and parallelism as a poetic tool. However, this translates very badly to modern day prose, leading to sections such as:
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* In ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'', there's a "box of paints to paint things with".
** And the NORTH POLE. DICSOVERED BY POOH. POOH FOUND IT.
* The nursery rhyme "The Grand Old Duke Of York":
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He had ten thousand men
He marched them up to the top of the hill
And he marched them down again.
And when they were up, they were up,
And when they were down, they were down,
And when they were only halfway up they were neither up nor down. }}
* In ''[[Tour of the Merrimack]]'', one Marine motto is, "Redundancy is good. Redundancy is good. Redundancy is good."
* The ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' book for 2003 lists all the video game consoles made by Sony for the record of greatest market share in global gaming as the Playstation, [[PS One]], and Playstation 2. [[PS One]] is another term for the Playstation.
* Hans Christian Andersen's ''The Emperor's Nightingale'' has a lovely (slightly insensitive) example in its opening lines:
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* At one point in ''[[True Grit]]'':
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* ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (
** A pretty common gag in the narration usually runs something like this:
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** In "Jeeves Takes Charge", Bertie is referred to as a "spineless invertebrate".
** "Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit":
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** ''Thank You, Jeeves'':
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* ''Henderson the Rain King'' by Saul Bellow: "In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too."
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