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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister
If you want to see how dialogue tags should not be done, try reading some vintage E Phillips Oppenheim. He used a staggering number of different dialogue tags, which once you noticed them became very very obtrusive indeed, and very annoying.
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So when do we start letting alliteration, assonance, consonance, repetition of words other than "said," and all those other rhetorical devices back out of the Poetry ghetto?