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A Said Bookism is a variety of Purple Prose in which the writer goes out of their way to avoid the word "said". It was quite the fashion at one point, so much so that there were "said books", which were lists of verbs that could be used instead of "said". You could use "exclaimed", "emoted", "sighed", "rumbled", "hissed", "pontificated", "enquired"... there was no shortage of them. But it's not considered particularly good form. Using words like this tends to be distracting, particularly when it delves into Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. And using them all the time can lessen the impact of using a word other than "said". If every line is growled, snarled, or hissed, it becomes much harder to tell when a character is particularly angry — and the writing just looks ridiculous. People are so used to the word "said" that they can mentally skip over it when reading; when the word changes over and over again, it becomes a distraction. It also looks like the author is trying too hard to be sophisticated, which makes the work look more forced and unnatural. The idea was to avoid repetition, which indeed can be annoying. But employing the Author Vocabulary Calendar isn't the best way to do this. Good authors can avoid extensive repetition of "said" by using more than just the dialogue tags to explain how the characters are talking. Descriptions of the speaker's posture, expression, or body language can easily give readers the tools they need to imagine how the character is talking. Subtext is also useful; there are some lines of dialogue that you can't imagine spoken in any other way. This also helps to avoid the characters becoming Talking Heads. As detailed in the Real Life section below, part of the reason for the prevalence of this trope is the rather aggressive methods schools take to prevent students from overusing the word ‘said’ in essays and creative writing tasks. While there are a multitude of words that are synonyms of said, often the original word itself is just as good when used in combination with an appropriate set of its counterparts, and context is important - read on! The problems with Said Bookisms can vary depending on the specific word you're using: Words like "whispered" or "shouted" are okay, as long as that's what the character is actually doing — they're useful if the reader needs to know that the character speaking more loudly or softly than one would expect. If every line is whispered or shouted, the impact is lost quickly. It's much easier to just describe a character once as having No Indoor Voice. Words that don't actually describe speech are especially frowned upon. Using "laughed" or "sighed" as a dialogue tag (as opposed to noting that a character laughed or sighed) can be distracting. Using "smiled" or "shrugged" as a dialogue tag is totally nonsensical — you can't smile or shrug a line. Some dialogue tags only make sense for lines with specific sounds in them. A line that is "hissed" makes no sense if it has no sibilants in it (the line "I really like beer" doesn't work in Sssssnaketalk). Similarly, you can't "snap" a Wall of Text. A few dialogue tags, like "ejaculated", have come to gain connotations which render them unusable in serious text. As always, Tropes Are Tools — a Said Bookism can be effective, in certain situations: If used sparingly, a Said Bookism can be very evocative. It's the overuse that's the problem; if all of a sudden, you break out a bookism, it makes the line stand out. It's like the difference between a Cluster F-Bomb and a Precision F-Strike; the same principle applies here. Some specific Said Bookisms are common enough that they are functionally equivalent to "said". "Asked" and "replied" are among the most common; they're widely considered perfectly fine, as long as that's what the characters are actually doing. An unusual Said Bookism can provide enough Bathos to be a good source of comedy, as seen in the page quote. Some languages are more tolerant of Said Bookisms than others; Spanish is a good example. If you want to Woolsify something into Spanish, you're gonna need to know some "Dijo Bookisms". A subtrope of Purple Prose. Compare Tom Swiftie, which is a punny adverb sprung from the line of dialogue it tags. See also "Burly Detective" Syndrome, Delusions of Eloquence, Author Vocabulary Calendar, and Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness. Not to be confused with something said by a character named Bookism. |
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From Fake Dreams Almost every conversation utilizes some form of repetitive dialogue tag. | |
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Stolen Kisses: Discussed Trope. Henri asks for a different word to use instead of "say" as he's already used it ten times in writing his report that morning. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Reality's Curtain averts this with extreme prejudice, most lines are attributed with 'said' or some form of action performed by the speaker. The author has also had a paragraph on their profile at one point detailing their contempt for this trope. | |
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In The Phantom Tollbooth, the members of King Azaz's cabinet (the Minister of Meaning, the Duke of Definition, The Earl of Essence, the Count of Countenance, and the Undersecretary of Understanding) talk like this all the time, to demonstrate how wasteful they are with words. | |
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The Tom Swift books were notorious for this, leading to the invention of the Tom Swiftie. | |
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Child of Grace avoids not only 'said' but 'asked', substituting 'queried', 'questioned', and 'interrogated' in completely inappropriate places. | |
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Parodied extensively in on Welcome to... in their Fanfiction.net episode. Plenty of the "said" substitutions also try (and fail) to verb the nouns. | |
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Homestuck high, with an intrepid disregard for the actual meaning of the words used, up to the point of "she eviscerated softly". | |
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Nearly every line of dialogue in Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles gets its own verb and adverb. | |
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The Harry Potter series had a few notorious examples: J.K. Rowling also used "ejaculated" in The Silkworm, her second Cormoran Strike novel. |
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In Full Frontal Nerdity, Frank stumbles across a Flame War over this topic while trying to write a novel. | |
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Everyone, mortal and supernatural, seems to murmur a lot in The Dresden Files. | |
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The End Is Near uses a lot of these, often combined with adverbs. | |
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Although The Keys Stand Alone is hardly guilty of this trope, there is a scene when the author deliberately did not use "said" at all—when the Pyar gods speak with the four. The two younger gods merely reiterate, in different words, what the primary god says, and every one of their speaking verbs is different. The implication is that what the gods are saying is, for the most part, both pretentious and useless. | |
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The trope name comes from the Turkey City Lexicon, which lists it as a common mistake made by beginning writers. | |
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Fifty Shades of Grey is very fond of 'murmur', even using it four times on one page. People are also fond of whispering things. Also, dialogue often gets tagged with actions, in some cases not by the actual speaker. This can make it quite hard to tell who's talking at any given time. | |
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This is really prevalent throughout Strength & Justice. Nearly every line of dialogue will have this. | |
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My Immortal has a sequence of these in Chapter 6: Lampshaded in this dramatic reading. |
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Some Horus Heresy authors do this at times, leading to quite a jarring effect in longer conversations. An example from Deathfire, which is positively filled up with those: | |
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The Onion ran a brief article where the author of a new book persistently used "shrugged" as every said bookism. When asked about this, said author expressed her indifference with a quick raising of her shoulders. | |
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In A Song of Ice and Fire, Hodor's dialogue is frequently tagged with Said Bookisms because he can only say his name, such as "Hodor, Hodor agreed" or "Hodor, Hodor protested". Also reinsubverted or something on at least one occasion in which the word "hodor" is used as a Said Bookism in-universe. | |
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How to Write Badly Well parodies this in "Banish 'said' from your vocabulary." | |
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Past Sins: "Offered" is used quite a bit. | |
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J.K. Rowling also used "ejaculated" in The Silkworm, her second Cormoran Strike novel. | |
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Atlanta Nights uses this quite a bit, as one of many deliberately bad writing techniques. | |
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XSGCOM gets a lot of mileage out of "opined." | |
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Discussed in Up the Down Staircase. When a student's book report sounds awkward because of his use of "depicts" and "portrays," Miss Barrett tells her class there is nothing wrong with the word "says." | |
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The Great Gatsby is not only full of these, it's full of redundant ones, like "snorted contemptuously." | |
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Said Bookism appears in-universe, played for pathos, in The Wire, when Ziggy Sobotka insists that a character didn't say something, he begged. But he's not a writer. He's reviewing his murder confession, and it was his victim who begged, "Please don't shoot me." | |
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Nobody ever seems to just 'say' things in The Twilight Saga, as skewered expertly here. | |
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Warrior Cats falls into this sometimes, though this mostly is because the authors replace every instance of the word "said" with "meowed", which can get a little weird sometimes and the authors want to avoid that. Apart from that, there are still a lot of said bookisms, like "ventured." | |
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Biggles does this all the time. Algy and Ginger might be guilty of saying things, but Biggles and Von Stalhein never are. | |
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Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome: This is part of the Stylistic Suck in which the whole book is presented. Our fictional hack author, a lover of Purple Prose, will rarely pass up an opportunity to insert an adjective or adverb even when it's unnecessary, and this holds true with his descriptions of dialogue. | |
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Zigzagged in Alice and Bob, with attempts at avoiding "said" and then just settling on that word. | |
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"Don't use this trope," How NOT to Write a Novel advised repeatedly. However, they don't lay down an absolute rule against adverbs, saying that they can add nuance to dialog that won't come across from what is said (the adverb coldly, for instance, completely changes the meaning of a line like "I love you"), but they still strongly recommend that adverbs be used carefully and very sparingly on dialog tags. | |
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In the Inheritance Cycle, the infamous: "'Sorry,' apologized Brom." | |
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Homestar Runner: Parodied in "The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck in His Craw", which deliberately (over)uses Said Bookism as part of a parody of bad children's books. "The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods" features a few examples, such as "tedioused" and "almost-cussed". |
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Tomorrow Stories: In one special, Splash Brannigan decides to act like a Film Noir-slash-dime novel hero, and narrates everything that happens to him. So this is how conversations go with him: At one point Daisy specifically tells him not to say "she said". Throughout the story, he basically uses every other word that could possibly mean "spoke", and a couple that couldn't, paired with increasingly ridiculous adverbs. |
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Saki: After Story does this to the point at which "said" is only used by characters who are speaking in reference to what they or others have said, never to describe dialogue. | |
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The Eye of Argon. Nothing is ever "said" — instead it is "husked" or "ejaculated" or "stated whimsicoracally". | |
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Darren Shan, most famous for The Saga of Darren Shan, likes to use these regardless of whether they're needed or not. He once used the word "tsked." No, really. | |
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