Tv Tropes

How to use trope in a sentence.

Tv tropes. A trope is a storytelling device or convention a shortcut for describing situations the storyteller can reasonably assume the audience will recognize. And by all kinds of entertainment we dont just mean english language content especially just american english content we want to cover and address. Television literature movies video games and more. Tv tropes itself jokingly alludes to this tendency claiming that the site will ruin your life and by extension your vocabulary as you start seeing tropes in everything you read watch or play and even start using trope terms like lampshading your mileage may vary and anvilicious in your everyday speech.

The word trope has also come to be used for describing commonly recurring literary and rhetorical devices motifs or cliches in creative works. Look it up now. Tv tropes the all devouring pop culture wiki catalogs and cross references recurrent plot devices archetypes and tropes in all forms of media. Since its establishment in 2004 the site has shifted focus from covering only television and film tropes to covering those in other types of media such as literature comics anime manga video games.

Tv tropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of various plot conventions and plot devices more commonly known as tropes that are found within many creative works. We collect them for the fun involved. Tv tropes is a wiki devoted to the documentation of tropes which are tools of the trade for storytelling in movies television shows literature and other forms of media. Trope definition is a word or expression used in a figurative sense.

Tropes are not the same thing as cliches. All the tropes is a community edited wiki website dedicated to discussing creators works and tropes the people projects and patterns of creative writing in all kinds of entertainment.