trope
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Another trope Hartnett identifies in asset allocation is “Anything But China.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
The continuing “No Ordinary Love” campaign speaks to the Gen Z-led revival of the romance genre as well as the AI-era’s reading-as-a-status-symbol trope.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
She digs into why it’s so appealing—and why it’s also become the most abused trope on BookTok.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Hopkins registered the trademark in 2018 and began contacting authors who had also used the descriptor — and the list was long, because the cocky, arrogant hero is a romance trope.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
“Don’t you know the other trope? “What’s that?”
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
If you can’t get enough of that show’s visual irony, metatextual references and winking at entertainment tropes, here’s 10 more episodes of the same feeling, only Earthbound.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Both were affectionate parodies of tropes from classic musicals dating to an era when the art form was far more culturally influential than it is now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Although Cristle and Sunny’s paths don’t cross frequently, both are bucking certain tropes.
From Salon ● May 11, 2026
One of the recurring tropes in “The Things We Never Say” is of a younger Artie spying his sister Maria eating confectioners’ sugar.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2026
But as I’ll hope to show, figures and tropes are essentially very straightforward things that happen to have Greek and Latin names.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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