Existe pleonasmo em inglês?

Eu pesquisei sobre o assunto e não encontrei muito. Mas um exemplo que eu vejo bastante é o "shine bright".

The sun is going to shine brightly all day.

These are what we call redundancies in English. See the usage notes under

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/redundancy

Yes, it does exist.
Pleonasm:
From the Greek, "excessive, abundant.

The use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning (e.g. see with one’s eyes), either as a fault of style or for emphasis.

Adjective: pleonastic.
Adverb: pleonastically

Could you repeat that again? (Again is unnecessary)


Pleonasm may serve as a rhetorical strategy to emphasize an idea or image. Used unintentionally, it may also be viewed as a stylistic fault.

"In the farmhouse I saw, with my own eyes, this sight: there was a man, of young age and graceful proportion, whose body had been torn limb from limb. The torso was here, an arm there, a leg there. . . .

"All this I saw with my own eyes, and it was the most fearsome sight I ever witnessed." (Michael Chrichton, Eaters of the Dead. Random House, 1976)

Pleonasms are the opposites (antonyms) of oxymora. A pleonasm consists of two concepts (usually two words) that are redundant. What does “redundant” mean? Well, how about “more than enough; overabundant; excess; and superfluous”? Still having a problem understanding what pleonasm means? Some pleonastic expressions are also known as tautologies. Tautology means, “needless repetition of an idea in a different word, phrase, or sentence; redundancy; pleonasm.” What about pleonasm? It means, “the use of more words than are necessary for the expression of an idea; redundancy.” So it is that we go around in circles: pleonasm means tautology, which means redundancy, which means pleonasm, which means tautology, ad infinitum.
Tautologous expressions are often used in legal documents for clarification of meaning; such as, “will and testament” and “breaking and entering”. This practice may have been a result of expressing English documents with a mixture of Anglo-Saxon and French or Latin terms. When early writers weren’t sure if both designations had the same meaning or that others might not have a clear understanding of the French or Latin, they apparently included terms from both the Anglo-Saxon and the “foreign” words side by side, just to be sure others understood what was meant; this is according to David Crystal in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.

http://www.wordexplorations.com/pleonasm.html
http://grammar.about.com/od/pq/g/pleonasmterm.htm
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/defin ... h/pleonasm
http://www.englishlanguageterminology.o ... speech.htm

I hope it helps.

Verdade, Amanda..a Rihanna canta uma música com pleonasmo...Shine bright like a diamong..