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A 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 are not the same thing as cliches. They 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; tropes are tools
that the creator of a work of art uses to express their ideas to the
audience. It's pretty much impossible to create a story without
tropes.

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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. This is a long list of all
tropes we have already catalogued#. You may, however, want to take
along a supply of Narnia Time in either case.

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