Periphrasis

Periphrasis*

Adding in superfluous words to extend the message you are trying to give - "beating around the bush", so to speak.


Example:
Ex: I have observed that within the time I subsituted for your class, the class participated in behaviours that were most unruly and displeasing in general vs. Your class misbehaved when I subsituted for you.

*A message to you from the adovocate of the Dragonreaper


(see also: circumlocution)

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