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Cliché Simile

Source: prose-craft
Scope: Paragraph-level
Method: Case-insensitive phrase matching against curated list

Flags overused similes like "cold as ice" or "quiet as a mouse."

What It Does

Scans text for ~40 cliché similes. One flag per paragraph.

A fresh simile illuminates; a cliché obscures. "Cold as ice" no longer creates an image because the reader has seen it thousands of times.