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The article provides a comprehensive analysis of pleonasm as stylistic and syntactic category. Pleonasm was defined as a phenomenon that is caused according to the rule of linguistic redundancy. A broad view of pleonasm has been proposed that unites not only the usage of synonyms or semantically close words, but also anaphora, diaphora, epiphora, polysyndeton. The types of grammatical pleonasms and facultative pleonasms have been classified. Polysyndeton has been defined as a variety of pleonasm that is the repetition of identical conjunctions, particles, and prepositions. The authoress came to the conclusion that the usage of the same words or word combinations is always bound with syntactic omission and complex sentence.