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trope is a storytelling device or convention, a shortcut for describing situations the storyteller can reasonably assume the audience will recognize. Tropes are the means by which a story is told by anyone who has a story to tell. We collect them, for the fun involved.
Tropes may be brand new but seem trite and hackneyed; they may be thousands of years old but seem fresh and new.
They are not bad, they are not good; they are simply tools that a creator of a work of art uses to express their ideas to the audience.
Here is a list of indexes, split into conceptual groups. At the bottom of each trope page you will find a convenient
Next or
Previous link that allows browsing alphabetically. You may, however, want to take along a supply of
Narnia Time.
Main Indexes:
Other Indexes:
