Definition of "tropes" []

• Plural form of trope. (noun)

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• "(And then there are those authors who don't even bother to do any invention at all and just rip off some sparkly vampires or other tropes from the past, never even trying to do anything new with them, etc ... but I won't beat that dead horse ... now.)"
• "In A Landscape With Dragons, O'Brien sets forth his axioms: if I understand him rightly, he holds the position that certain tropes or motifs which appear in literature are symbols for various things of religous import."
• "The bulk is trad fantasists who play with folkloric tropes from a commercial impulse to romanticism, because they make for ripping yarns."