trope
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By the end, every trope the director uses has been bled dry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Magazines, of course, didn’t originate the longstanding trope of a new year as a site of reinvention, clean slates, new leaves.
From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026
Spy thrillers have also long featured prominently, often portraying Pakistan as the biggest threat to India - a familiar trope rooted in decades of geopolitical tension between the two countries.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
The documentary echoes the protagonists of Jack London novels — men up against the wild, grappling for survival — a trope Woliner enjoys.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
To Colin's mind, the rooster crowing at dawn was nothing more than a literary and cinematic trope.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
Vocabulary lists containing trope
Poetry: Literary Devices
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Rhetoric
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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