After hours of browsing TV Tropes, Lyle could predict the ending of any show. This gave him a distaste for entertainment that, in a roundabout way, enabled him to make time for a more productive life.
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Tropes
Synonyms for "tropes" (6 found)
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Noun(2 words)
conventionfigure of speech
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Noun(1 words)
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6 entrieslinguistic deviceliterary termnarrative elementrhetorical devicestory conventionthematic device
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7 entriesCollocations
6 entriescommon tropeliterary tropenarrative troperecurring motifstock tropetropes in
Sample sentences
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I spent hours reading about media tropes.
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Many of the tropes of modern antisemitism were invented by czarist authorities in Imperial Russia.
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Chinese characters are made up of common tropes.
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