Welcome, students! This is Prof. Seymour Tropewell's literature seminar, "Troping in the Literary Field!"
TV Tropes is a great place to learn about literary techniques, but most of the tropes on this wiki aren't quite techniques or accepted by the literary field. These ones are. Straight from the textbook, these are the tropes you will learn about in your English class. This index is designed to be a quick go-to guide to various literary terms.
Similar to the We Are Not Alone Index, which indexes tropes that also have pages on The Other Wiki.
Tropes:
Related:
- Alliteration
- Allusion
- Allegory
- Alternate Moral Interpretation
- Alternate Character Interpretation
- Anadiplosis
- Anaphora
- An Aesop
- The Antagonist
- Anti-Hero
- Anti-Villain
- Archetypal Character
- Bathos
- Breaking the Fourth Wall
- Byronic Hero
- Call to Adventure
- Central Theme
- Character Development
- Character Focus
- Chekhov's Gun
- Classical Antihero
- Classic Villain
- The Climax
- Comedy
- Conflict
- Deconstruction
- Dénouement
- Deus ex Machina
- Deuteragonist
- Dialogue
- Dramatis Personae
- Dynamic Character
- The Epic
- Epiphora
- Epithet
- Exposition
- Fable
- Fabula and Sujet
- Fairy Tale
- Flashback
- Flash Fiction
- Fatal Flaw
- Flat Character
- Foil
- Foreshadowing
- Fourth Wall
- Genre
- Greek Chorus
- Herald
- The Hero
- The Hero's Journey
- In Medias Res
- Inciting Incident
- Irony
- Kishōtenketsu
- Leitmotif
- MacGuffin
- Madonna Archetype
- Meaningful Name
- Messianic Archetype
- Mesodiplosis
- Minimalism
- Mirror Character
- Moses Archetype
- Motifs
- Narrator
- Novel
- Novelette
- Novella
- Plot
- Plot Threads
- Point of View
- The Power of Language
- Power Trio
- The Protagonist
- Purple Prose
- Red Herring
- Riddle
- Rising Conflict
- Rounded Character
- Said Bookism
- Satire
- Shadow Archetype
- Short Story
- Show, Don't Tell
- Static Character
- Story Arc
- Subtext
- Symbolism
- Symploce
- Three-Act Structure
- Tragedy
- Tragic Hero
- Tragic Mistake
- The Trickster
- Unreliable Narrator
- Villain Protagonist
