trope
Example Sentences
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The point was not to adjudicate whether the books are racist but to see what is revealed by the tropes and codes used to indicate racial difference.
We have the book to thank for so many tropes: forbidden love, friends-to-lovers.
From Los Angeles Times
The script is filled with tired tropes and doesn’t set up Jay Dee in a way that showcases his natural presence or way with words.
From Los Angeles Times
Having named the genre, the French can claim a special connection to that loose collection of cinematic tropes we call film noir.
Magazines, of course, didn’t originate the longstanding trope of a new year as a site of reinvention, clean slates, new leaves.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
