trope
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Their name is an anagram of the phrase "I'm Fearless", and those early songs channelled the girl group trope of combative, bulletproof confidence.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
But Mary is different from the superpowered variety of the trope, or the brilliant outcasts in teen movies like “Mean Girls,” “Sixteen Candles,” “The Edge of Seventeen” or “The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”
From Salon • May 20, 2026
Male actors playing female roles were a familiar trope across global theatre, from Europe to Japan and China.
From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026
By the end, every trope the director uses has been bled dry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
To borrow a trope from the historian Alfred Crosby, if Genghis Khan had arrived with the Black Death, this book would not be written in a European language.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing trope
Poetry: Literary Devices
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Rhetoric
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Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Advanced
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