N-UNCOUNT (作家、电影导演等的)破格,不拘一格 If someone such as a writer or film director uses poetic licence, they break the usual rules of language or style, or they change the facts, in order to create a particular effect. (作家、电影导演等的)破格,不拘一格
All that stuff about catching giant fish was just a bit of poetic licence.