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Sep 20, 2022 at 6:54am
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Re: Re: Five tropes that sound cool but rarely work
From the (proceed at your own risk) website, TV Tropes  Open in new Window.:

"A trope is a storytelling device or convention, a shortcut for describing situations the storyteller can reasonably assume the audience will recognize. Tropes are the means by which a story is told by anyone who has a story to tell. We collect them, for the fun involved.

Tropes are not the same thing as cliches. They may be brand new but seem trite and hackneyed; they may be thousands of years old but seem fresh and new. They are not bad, they are not good; tropes are tools that the creator of a work of art uses to express their ideas to the audience. It's pretty much impossible to create a story without tropes."


I find it a loaded-but-occasionally-useful term, a bit like "literary fiction" or "new adult".

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