Trope

Trope is a term for a figure of speech."Figures of Speech: Tropes" at Rhetoric.byu.edu; retrieved 2012-1-14.  The term has evolved to identify an overused theme or device. "Trope" at Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary; retrieved 2012-1-24.  A trope may mean a convention, a plot trick, a setup, a narrative structure and a character type all at the same time.Tomlinson, Barbara. (2010). Feminism and Affect at the Scene of Argument: Beyond the Trope of the Angry Feminist, p. 1.

 List of types
In rhetoric, there are many types of tropes.
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 Allegory 
 Antithesis
 Hyperbole
 Irony 
 Metaphor 
 Metonymy 
 Oxymoron
 Synecdoche

References

Other websites
 "Tropes" at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy


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Category:Narratology
Category:Psychology
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