A literary trope is the usage of figurative language in literature. For media it's storytelling shorthand for a concept that the audience will recognize and understand instantly. It can be a plot trick, a setup, a narrative structure, a character type, a linguistic idiom... you know it when you see it.
No need to feel bad, I had to google to get the right words for the definition.
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Date: 2012-06-21 02:45 am (UTC)No need to feel bad, I had to google to get the right words for the definition.