Historical clue formulations

• Familiar narrative device — 2026-09-21
• Writing cliché — 2025-02-16
• Frequently recurring theme — 2024-11-07
• Familiar cliché in storytelling, like "the love triangle" or "the girl next door" — 2023-06-26
• A car that won't start is a common one in horror films — 2023-01-29
• Busy businesswoman in a rom-com, e.g. — 2022-07-24
• Evil clown in a horror film, e.g. — 2022-05-18
• The girl next door, for one — 2022-03-02
• Amnesia in soap operas, e.g. — 2021-12-01
• Meet-cute in a romance film, e.g. — 2021-02-11
• Recurrent theme — 2019-06-23
• Recurrent theme — 2019-02-01
• Irony or hyperbole — 2018-09-23
• Figure of speech — 2017-06-05
• Recurrent theme — 2017-02-06
• Literary figure of speech — 2016-11-09
• Metaphor, e.g. — 2013-10-15
• Figurative use of a word — 2013-07-03
• Figure of speech — 2011-09-18
• Figurative device — 2011-06-09
• Figure of speech — 2008-06-02
• Figure of speech — 2008-02-11
• Metaphor, literarily — 2005-05-26
• Figure of speech — 2003-09-25
• Metaphor, for one — 2002-12-14
• Figure of speech — 2002-09-26
• Metaphor or irony, e.g. — 1998-10-15