[Answer] 9. What is the term used for a tired, overused phrase?

Step 1 : Introduction to the question "9. What is the term used for a tired, overused phrase?"

...1. abstraction 2. cliche 3. metaphor 4. image Some good examples of cliches: the ubiquitous 'broken heart', the ever-present 'spinning world', and the irritating 'burning love'. These weaken poems. Very much so.

[Answer] 5. What invention did L�szl� B�r�, a newspaper editor tired of smudges, introduce at the 1931 Budapest International Fair?

Step 1 : Introduction to the question "5. What invention did L�szl� B�r�, a newspaper editor tired of smudges, introduce at the 1931 Budapest International Fair? "

...1. Fountain pen 2. Ballpoint pen 3. Magic Marker 4. Mechanical pencil Biro, a Jew, fled Hungary, eventually settling in Argentina. Although his pen was an improvement on others' ideas, his name was the one that stuck: ballpoint pens are still commonly called "biros" in Britain and Australia. B�r� sold his patent rights to Marcel Bich, who produced the ubiquitous Bic pen, sometimes called the Bic Biro.

[Answer] 8. What is the term used for a tired, overused phrase?

Step 1 : Introduction to the question "8. What is the term used for a tired, overused phrase?"

...1. image 2. abstraction 3. cliche 4. metaphor Some good examples of cliches: the ubiquitous 'broken heart', the ever-present 'spinning world', and the irritating 'burning love'. These weaken poems. Very much so.