narrative trope

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concept

A narrative trope is a commonly recurring storytelling device, theme, or pattern that audiences recognize and that creators use to convey ideas, shape expectations, or subvert conventions.

All labels observed (25)

Label Occurrences
plot device 46
narrative device 19
narrative motif 10

Instances (98)

Instance Via concept surface
Lucien pursues aristocratic and bourgeois patronage narrative motif
Opti-Grab plot device
The Key to All Mythologies plot device
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun narrative device
The Frogs Who Desired a King allegory
Rambaldi artifacts plot device
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome television trope
Liam Digby is mistaken for an adult plot device
Sjaalman narrative device
A Tale of a Tub allegory
Seldon Plan plot device
Foundation versus the Mule plot arc
Seldon Crisis plot device
handkerchief plot plot device
The Celestial Railroad allegory
Hollow Earth science fiction trope
Grays Sports Almanac plot device
Dibiasky comet plot device
absurd adventures in space
surface form: Absurd adventures in space
includes flashback sections called "The Time Machine"
surface form: The Time Machine (narrative device in The Naked and the Dead)
narrative device
Rosebud plot device
The Spark plot device
Airborne Toxic Event plot device
U.S. government (fictional covert operations)
trials of the Doctor recurring plot device
Faustian pact cultural trope
the Entertainment (lethal film cartridge)
surface form: The Entertainment
plot device
Disney storytelling themes narrative motif collection
The Masque of the Red Death allegory
McGuffin narrative device
Tablet of Ahkmenrah plot device
Plankton’s Plan Z plot device
A Fable for Tomorrow allegory
The Pepperpots comedy trope
Cardiff Rift plot device
Path of Illumination plot device
The Crack in the Wall plot device
unobtanium plot device
corbomite bluff plot device
Anti-Life Equation plot device
wrath of Achilles narrative motif
deus ex machina narrative device
katabasis narrative pattern
TestsForHeroes narrative motif
Star Wars opening crawl narrative device
Ship of the Imagination narrative device
sharks as execution method (film)
surface form: Sharks as execution method (film)
cinematic trope
Prophecy about Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort plot device
Americans in Paris recurring motif in American literature
Golden Ticket contest plot device