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tropes
noun
(trope)
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Synonyms:
figure
, figure of speech,
image
,
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tropes
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image
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figure
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figure of speech
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helio
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cliches
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archetypes
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conceits
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themes
,
metaphors
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shtick
,
pastiche
,
genre
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iconography
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narratives
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attitudinizing
,
idioms
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absurdism
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notions
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subgenre
,
allusions
,
moralizing
,
blaxploitation
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affectations
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literalism
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mythos
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sensibility
,
didacticism
,
mythologies
,
subtext
,
plotline
,
commonplaces
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historicism
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claptrap
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schlock
,
stylisation
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metafiction
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stereotypes
,
melodrama
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stylization
,
slapstick
,
allegories
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noir
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surrealism
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riff
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revisionism
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motifs
,
intertextuality
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truisms
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postmodern
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grotesquery
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triteness
,
grand guignol
,
corniness
,
schtick
,
schemata
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fantasias
,
crudities
,
kinkiness
,
moralism
,
characters
,
auteurism
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gags
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existentialism
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contrivances
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conventionality
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primitivism
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subversiveness
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argot
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clownishness
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sappiness
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film noir
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pieties
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koans
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knowingness
,
silliness
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storyline
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orthodoxies
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isms
,
crudeness
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deconstructionist
,
fable
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axioms
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absurdities
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onanism
,
archaism
,
euphemisms
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tautologies
,
villainy
,
winkingly
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sentimentalism
,
journalese
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pompousness
,
philosophizing
,
opera buffa
,
pictorialism
,
banality
,
grotesquerie
,
shibboleth
,
misogyny
,
grisliness
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tropes
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