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Peter Sturgeon notes: <<What makes it a cliche? By many definitions,
being "overused.">>
Which leads to that famous report from a class of Shakespeare students:
"OK, so he's a great writer, but why'd he have to use so many clichés?"
(Not an urban legend... my wife reported this from one of her classes.
Really! I've heard other anecdotal evidence of similar comments.)
Perhaps I'm being a bit cynical here, but I've found that something is
a cliché if you don't like the writer or what they're writing about. If
you like them, it somehow becomes clever use of an archetypes or trope.
I've seen this very interesting phenomenon occur in a writer's group
hosted by two name-brand authors who had no problem with their own use
of cliché, or that of their friends/lovers/political-critical
allies/whatever, but who pounced hard on the exact same wording in
someone else's writing.
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