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Example sentences for: tropes

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Some critics are less generous and note a heavy reliance on melodrama and film noir tropes; the Daily News ' Fintan O'Toole writes that the play is no "lost masterpiece."
Abraham Lincoln wrote the Second Inaugural Address knowing full well that his biblical tropes ("woe unto the world because of offenses!"
Scholars in the field decode and debunk the literary tropes that rhetorically separate "normal" from "abnormal" bodies.
It certainly defies the standard tropes of writing about young people--all that stuff about how it's OK to be yourself, even if you're different.