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Overused FORMULA which has lost the expressive force it pretends to have.

Hypernym
  • FORMULARepeated REPETITIO of a conventional standard formulaic expression in a text. 定形句 Fixed recurring formula, as for example notoriously common in epic poetry and particularly in Homer.
    • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
      • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
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