Question

Girard’s essay begins, “Hamlet belongs to the genre of the revenge tragedy, as hackneyed and yet inescapable in Shakespeare’s days as the ‘thriller’ in ours.” He uses the word hackneyed to mean...
a. popular
b. flawed
c. unorginal
d. unexciting

Answer 1

Based on my prior knowledge of the word I would say C (unoriginal) is a pretty safe choice.