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  2. Tropes 101: We've Got Your Guide to the Rules of Romance ...

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    Romance writers are excellent at combining tropes, of subverting the traditional view of a trope, and applying tropes to an infinite number of new settings, characters, and conflicts.

  3. Category:Fantasy tropes - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to fantasy tropes, literary tropes that occur in fantasy fiction. Worldbuilding, plot, and characterization have many common conventions, many of them having ultimately originated in myth and folklore.

  4. Romantic fantasy - Wikipedia

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    Romantic fantasy or romantasy is a subgenre of fantasy fiction that combines fantasy and romance, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the chivalric romance genre. [1] One of the key features of romantic fantasy involves the focus on relationships, social, political, and romantic. [2]

  5. Romance novel - Wikipedia

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    Fantasy romance, also known as romantic fantasy, is a subgenre of fantasy fiction, describing a fantasy story using many of the elements and conventions of the romance genre. Romantic fantasy has been published by both fantasy and romance lines, with some publishers distinguishing between "fantasy romance" being more like a contemporary fantasy ...

  6. Supernatural swoon: Why a 'paranormal romance' book may be ...

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    Like its peers in the broader genre, paranormal romances often follows romance tropes, but with fantastical twist. There’s the “fated mate” or “true mate” trope, where a character has ...

  7. Fantasy trope - Wikipedia

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    The conflict of good against evil is a theme in the many popular forms of fantasy; normally, evil characters invade and disrupt the good characters' lands. [2] J. R. R. Tolkien delved into the nature of good and evil in The Lord of the Rings, but many of those who followed him use the conflict as a plot device, and often do not distinguish the sides by their behavi

  8. Trope (literature) - Wikipedia

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    For a longer list, see Figure of speech: Tropes. Kenneth Burke has called metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony the "four master tropes" [17] owing to their frequency in everyday discourse. These tropes can be used to represent common recurring themes throughout creative works, and in a modern setting relationships and character interactions.

  9. The Rise of ‘Romantasy’: Inside the Craze for Spicy Stories ...

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    Romantasy books have a few other common factors too; many books in the genre feature classic romantic tropes like “enemies to lovers” stories and love triangles, just like in every good romcom ...