EPISODE · May 4, 2023 · 28 MIN
174. Avoid Verbal and Narrative Clichés in Your Writing
from Writing and Editing · host Wayne Jones
Send us Fan MailI talk about these two types of clichés to avoid. I use "verbal cliché" to mean hackneyed phrases and worn-out imagery that may have been imaginative and fresh at some time in the history of the language now, but has since gone stale. I use "narrative cliché" to mean the use of familiar tropes and situations in the story you are telling. This episode mostly is about fiction and film.Garner's Modern English Usagehttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/garners-modern-english-usage-9780197599020Imagining and Knowing: The Shape of Fiction, by Gregory Curriehttps://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199656615.001.0001
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