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  2. Trope (literature) - Wikipedia

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    A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. [1] Keith and Lundburg describe a trope as "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase". [2] The word trope has also undergone a semantic change and now also describes commonly ...

  3. Fantasy trope - Wikipedia

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    Fantasy. A fantasy trope is a specific type of literary trope (recurring theme) that occurs in fantasy fiction. Worldbuilding, plot, and characterization have many common conventions, many of them having ultimately originated in myth and folklore. J.

  4. Women in refrigerators - Wikipedia

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    Women in refrigerators is a literary trope coined by Gail Simone in 1999 describing a trend in fiction which involves female characters facing disproportionate harm, such as death, maiming, or assault, to serve as plot devices to motivate male characters, an event colloquially known as " fridging ". Simone's original list of over 100 affected ...

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  6. TV Tropes - Wikipedia

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    TV Tropes is a wiki that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative works. Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from covering various tropes to those in general media, toys, writings, and their associated fandoms, as well as some non-media subjects such as history, geography, and ...

  7. American comic book tropes - Wikipedia

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    The Marvel Universe, sometimes abbreviated to MU, is the shared universe in which the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Avengers, etc. all exist and interact. Earth-616, the Six-One-Six, etc., denotes the numerical designation of the Earth which the Marvel Universe inhabits. The term was coined in the pages of Captain Britain, by either Alan Moore [1] or ...

  8. The Book of the New Sun - Wikipedia

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    The Commonwealth. The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983, 1987) is a four-volume science fantasy novel written by the American author Gene Wolfe.The work is in four parts with a fifth novel acting as a coda to the main story.

  9. Category:Fantasy tropes - Wikipedia

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    Category. : Fantasy tropes. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fantasy tropes. Articles relating to fantasy tropes, literary tropes that occur in fantasy fiction. Worldbuilding, plot, and characterization have many common conventions, many of them having ultimately originated in myth and folklore .