I've found the word I was looking for. It's pleonasm:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pleonasm
pleonasm (countable and uncountable; plural pleonasms) (uncountable, rhetoric) Redundancy in wording. [quotations ▼] (countable) A phrase involving pleonasm, that is, a phrase in which one or more words are redundant as their meaning is expressed elsewhere in the phrase. "The two of them are both the same" is a pleonasm (as the word "both" is redundant), as is "killed dead".
Some better examples:
- "Could you repeat that again?"
- "It's a really new innovation""The crowd was vociferating loudly."
In the same genre there is also redundancies and tautologies.