- TROPE
- Figure of speech
- Use of a word as an expression
- Deus ex machina, for example
- Figurative use of a word
- Metaphor, e.g.
- Figurative expression
- Metonymy or synecdoche, e.g.
- '90s presidential candidate often mocked for his big ears
- Irony, e.g.
- Irony, say
- Overused theme
- Familiar theme
- Familiar plot device
- Irony, for example
- Rhetorical device
- Literary device
- Convention of dramatists
- Cinematic convention for conveying a concept
- Figure of speech-irony.
- Irony.
- Topical heading.
- Metaphor.
- Figure of speech, such as irony.
- Figure of speech: in rhetoric.
- Figure of speech, as irony.
- A figure of speech.
- Metaphor or irony.
- Use of a word in a figurative sense.
- Figurative language in general.
- What 4 Down is.
- Figurative use of words.
- Figurative language.
- Turning: Comb. form.
- Simile or metaphor.
- Topical head.
- Metaphor or simile.
- Synecdoche, e.g.
- Simile, e.g.
- Metaphor or irony, e.g.
- Metaphor, literarily
- Figurative device
- Literary figure of speech
- Recurrent theme
- Irony or hyperbole
- Amnesia in soap operas, e.g.
- Meet-cute in a romance film, e.g.
- Busy businesswoman in a rom-com, e.g.
- Evil clown in a horror film, e.g.
- The girl next door, for one
- A car that won't start is a common one in horror films
- Familiar cliché in storytelling, like "the love triangle" or "the girl next door"
- Zeugma or synecdoche, e.g.
- Word used as an expression
- Artistic device
- Cliche
- Jump scare, for one, in horror movies
- Movie cliche, e.g.
- Movie cliche
- Rhetoric device
- Writer's device
- Characters saying "you'd better come see this," e.g.
- Enemies to lovers, e.g.
- Meet cute in a rom-com, e.g.
- Love triangle, e.g.
- Mirror scare in a horror movie, e.g.
- Movie or TV cliche
- Hyperbole, e.g.
- The idea that it was all a dream, in cinematic plot twists, e.g.
- Recurring plot device
- Cinematic convention
- Recurrent motif
- Clichéd plot device
- Movie cliché
