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* ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'':
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* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'', because just "carol" alone means "a christmas song".
* ''[[Inheritance Cycle]]''
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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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* In the ''[[Animorphs]]'' book ''The Ellimist Chronicles'', when Ellimist realizes Aguella's pheromoning at him, and wonders why him: "Aguella could have any male she wanted. She was beautiful, well formed, sturdy, intelligent, funny, beautiful, very beautiful. ''That was several too many 'beautifuls''', I said to myself."
* ''[[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone|Harry Potter]]'':
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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 The Holy Grail|Holy Hand Grenade]] scene?)
** 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.
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** 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."
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** From ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/So Long And Thanks For All The Fish|So Long And Thanks For All The Fish]]'': "Beyond what used to be known as the Limitless Lightfields of Flanux until the Grey Binding Fiefdoms of Saxaquine were discovered lying behind them, lie the Grey Binding Fiefdoms of Saxaquine."
* 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 "[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.)
** ''[[Discworld/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'', on the topic of anchorites:
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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 ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'':
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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
fog.
Mrs Cake }}
* From ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'', Book the First: "Traitor tears were there, betraying me."
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** 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 the Rain|A toes is a toes is a toes is a toes is]]"?
** 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.
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* Averted in [[The Icelandic Sagas|Nordic sagas]] "Seven Viking Romances". Heroes will boast about what they will do, before fulfilling it- bigger boast, bigger kudos. To avoid the skald having to repeat his story telling there will be lines like "Eric said he would do x, y and z. So that's what he did.
* In one version of ''Baba Yaga'':
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* In ''[[Around the World in Eighty Days]]'', Passepartout is described more than once as "a Parisian of Paris". As opposed to what, exactly? (Besides, [[Fridge Logic|he hasn't even lived in Paris for five years.]])
* 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 (novel)|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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