Trope (literature)

A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. Keith and Lundburg...

cinematic convention for conveying a concept Trope (literature), a figure of speech or common literary device Trope (music), any of a variety of different things...

The Chosen One, also known as The One or The Chosen, is a narrative trope where one character, usually the protagonist, is framed as the inevitable hero...

buying new clothes. The term has the same origin as that of "trope" in the sense of literature, and derived from this. In turn, this came from the Greek...

A fantasy trope is a specific type of literary trope (recurring theme) that occurs in fantasy fiction. Worldbuilding, plot, and characterization have many...

One Nights. Motif (folkloristics) Motif (music) Motif (visual arts) Trope (literature) James H. Grayson (2000). Myths and Legends from Korea: An Annotated...

TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative...

Promessi Sposi or in the Lord of the Rings). Hybris Argumentation scheme Trope (literature) Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Commonplace" . Encyclopædia Britannica...

usually considered the beginning of contemporary conspiracy theory literature. This trope is often manifested in both writings and graphic imagery in which...

A trope or tropus may refer to a variety of different concepts in medieval, 20th-, and 21st-century music. The term trope derives from the Greek τρόπος...

that computer images enter into dialog with. Archetype Meme Narreme Trope (literature) "mytheme – Definition of mytheme in English by Oxford Dictionaries"...

heat... as the humidity...." "You're a sight for sore eyes." Cliché Trope (literature) Idiom 1906 newspaper article: Gallagher, James (December 30, 1906)...

The plowboy trope appears in Christian rhetoric and literature in the form of various bucolic, lowly or even unsavoury characters who would benefit from...

facto standard Non-conventional trademark Standard (disambiguation) Trope (literature) Unconventional computing Unconventional superconductor Unconventional...

in itself. Catchphrase Leitmotif Signature song Signature weapon Trope (literature) List of filmmakers' signatures "10 Celebrities Without Their Trademark...

Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of eros (passionate, romantic or sexual relationships) intended to arouse similar...

Hebrew cantillation, trope, trop, or te'amim is the manner of chanting ritual readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue services. The chants are written...

Women in refrigerators is a literary trope coined by Gail Simone in 1999 describing a trend in fiction which involves female characters facing disproportionate...

into French, were a significant influence and the source of many stock tropes and images. The aesthetic was developed by Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Verlaine...

appropriated from without." One trope common to African American literature is "signifying". Gates claims that signifying "is a trope in which are subsumed several...