The article examines lexical, grammatical and stylistic manifestations of excess in modern Ukrainian artistic discourse. A defi nition of the phenomenon of redundancy, in-cluding their lexical, grammatical and stylistic types, is proposed. The specifi cs of their application at the level of a complex multi-component sentence are outlined. Excessive el-ements are used to emphasize the statement and have a pragmatic eff ect on the addressee.The theoretical apparatus discussed in the article allows us to diff erentiate pleonasm as an excess of means that serves to convey the lexical or grammatical content of an utterance, manifests itself in repetition, synonymous duplication of lexemes or grammatical forms, as well as in too verbose conveying of content. The concept of tautology, which is tangential to the defi nition of pleonasm, is interpreted as a stylistic fi gure aimed at strengthening a phenomenon or sign. The basis of this technique is the repeated designation of what was said earlier in a diff erent form. Emphasis is placed on the fact that the use of repetitions in the text or partial duplication of content improves the style and gives the statement clarity and specifi cation. On the basis of the descriptive method used in the work, it was established that repeated words demonstrate the gradation of feelings, understandings and depth of experi-ences. In order to increase the impact on the perception of the text, to give it greater drama and expressiveness, modern writers widely use anaphora, or monologue. In addition, artistic texts are not devoid of such a stylistic fi gure as polysyndeton, or multiple conjunction, which is a means of demonstrating solemnity, expressing and enhancing lyricism and showing the author’s thoughts. At the time, the authors consciously used the analyzed technique, which, in our opinion, is fully justifi ed and motivated.The analysis of the given examples proved: despite the possibility of avoiding repetitions, the authors consciously use fi gures of excess, which are fully justifi ed and motivated. They are a means of artistic expressiveness of current events and the au-thor’s objective attitude to the world; contribute to revealing the nature of inner feel-ings; enrich the text with expression, as well as clarify what was said, intensify signs and actualize the actions presented in the text and at the syntactic level manifested in various types of complex multi-component sentences.