TYPICAL ERROR In the poem 'Old Prison' by Judith Wright, the poet compares the prison to a flute.
CORRECTION In her poem 'Old Prison', Judith Wright compares the prison to a flute.
EXPLANATION The uncorrected sentence above is verbose because too many words are used to define the poet. (It is a type of redundancy, or using words that aren't needed.) That sentence provides us with a very simple example. Indeed, sometimes whole essays are composed of long, rambling sentences that lack precision and clarity.
Another form of verbosity is the use of unnecessarily long and complex words to say something that could have been said quite simply.
Delete a word or phrase so that these sentences are less verbose (so that they are shorter and more precise).