Basic Trope: Highly detailed and extensive descriptions.
- Straight: In Chronicles of Troperia, the author puts an outstanding amount of detail on the descriptions; from the subtle characteristics of the different locations, to the exact (physical AND psychological) aspect of each and every single character.
- Exaggerated: The author spends an entire page describing a safety pin.
- Downplayed: The author sometimes gives extra details when important elements of the work are introduced.
- Justified: There are two items or characters that are very similar, and differences need to be brought up.
- Inverted: When it comes to descriptions, the author prefers Beige Prose... When they are feeling generous. Other times there's no description, even when it would be expected/required.
- Subverted: The Author seem to start writing detailed description for a house... but the said description is pretty short.
- Double Subverted: ...but then it starts going again.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: Some items, locations, or people got extensive descriptions, while others got a few lines describing them.
- Averted: No description is of an extended length.
- Enforced: Ms. Alice really likes extended descriptions and makes all her students put them into their writing.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: A Chekhov's Gun is set up in the description.
- Defied: The description is incorrect for some reason.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: Alice is reading a Doorstopper and remarks, "The descriptions in this thing go on forever! I'm on page 20 and I haven't even met a single character yet!"
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