trope
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- noun
- /troʊp/
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tropo
- The movie cleverly subverts the common trope of the villain revealing their plan at the last minute.
- common tropes
- literary tropes
- use a trope
So the whole cool person trope plays into that model perfectly.
- So the whole cool person trope plays into that model perfectly.
- And then she goes back to this tired old trope we've heard from Democrats forever.
- But if you're into that trope, you probably will really enjoy this book.
- Or is it just a cheesy TV trope that works?
- It was like the, the, the, the classic, like naked at school trope or whatever.
- It's got some great drama, but it also subverts almost every trope of a sitcom.
- I just don't like the amnesia trope.
- So I mean, those things are linked as opposed to they reinforce some American trope, right.
- The good stuff is risky because it may play on this whole love bombing trope.
- I feel like they are all tropes that we can't stand right?
- And we're going to explore that that story trope in in just a moment.
Examples
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So as we know, all the books in this series contain the forced marriage trope, which I don't like.
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The theme has obvious political importance and is one of the main tropes in American culture.
Academic text (1999) -
I just like the trope in this book.
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So the whole cool person trope plays into that model perfectly.
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Again, a trope we know from literature.
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I will say like literally my only problem with the book was simply that the trope was very obvious.
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But consider another appearance of the trope, surely familiar to the artist.
Academic text (2015) -
You can really examine the culture of the moment by looking at the tropes of the time.
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It is an often discussed trope in movies when people review horror films.
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It's got some great drama, but it also subverts almost every trope of a sitcom.
Synonyms
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2.8
Main idea in a piece of writing, art, or talk
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5.9
A theme or idea that appears again and again in stories, paintings and music
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9.1
A short musical idea that returns to show a person, place, or feeling
Compounds
- NSFW
A pattern in roleplaying games where characters travel and kill others without caring about the story
How Common
Surface Forms
Etymology
Trope also comes from the Greek tropos, 'turn'. That's why a trope can be a common idea or device in stories — it is a familiar 'turn' writers take again and again, like the 'reluctant hero'.