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  2. Verbosity - Wikipedia

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    Overwriting is a simple compound of the English prefix "over-" ("excessive") and "writing", and as the name suggests, means using extra words that add little value. One rhetoric professor described it as "a wordy writing style characterized by excessive detail, needless repetition, overwrought figures of speech, and/or convoluted sentence ...

  3. Logorrhea (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    Excessive talking may be a symptom of an underlying illness and should be addressed by a medical provider if combined with hyperactivity or symptoms of mental illness, such as hallucinations. [16] Treatment of logorrhea depends on its underlying disorder, if any.

  4. Hypergraphia - Wikipedia

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    Forms of hypergraphia can vary in writing style and content. It is a symptom associated with temporal lobe changes in epilepsy and in Geschwind syndrome . [ 1 ] Structures that may have an effect on hypergraphia when damaged due to temporal lobe epilepsy are the hippocampus and Wernicke's area .

  5. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    List of tautological place names – Toponyms composed of synonyms; Logorrhea (psychology) – Communication disorder that causes excessive wordiness and repetitiveness; Purple prose – Prose text that is overwritten in a way that disrupts a narrative flow; RAS syndrome – Acronym redundantly coupled with its word(s)

  6. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Hypsos – great or worthy writing, sometimes called sublime; Longinus's theme in On the Sublime. Hysteron proteron – a rhetorical device in which the first key word of the idea refers to something that happens temporally later than the second key word; the goal is to call attention to the more important idea by placing it first.

  7. Palilalia - Wikipedia

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    Palilalia has been theorized to occur in writing and sign language. [5] [9] A case study by Tyrone and Moll examined a 79-year-old right-handed deaf man named PSP who showed anomalies in his signing. [9] PSP had learned British Sign Language (BSL) at the age of seven and had developed left-sided weakness and dysphagia at age 77.

  8. Graphorrhea - Wikipedia

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    Unlike schizophrenia, the individual's writing ability is most seriously impaired in aphasia. Individuals experience that there is a widely recognised discrepancy between oral and written ability; this discrepancy occurred in around 35% of the individuals and 64% of them demonstrated that their written language ability was worse.

  9. Graphomania - Wikipedia

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    Graphomania is related to typomania, which is obsessiveness with seeing one's name in publication or with writing for being published, excessive symbolism or typology. [7] Outside the psychiatric definitions of graphomania and related conditions, the word is used more broadly to label the urge and need to write excessively, professionally or not.