Walking a Tight Trope (Give an Example)
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Terms of Endearment
What do we call that thing where they do the thing?
Gen-Z? More like Genre-Z. Amirite?
100
She was a damsel in distress.

who is a [woman (sic) who needed saving]?

100

A person, a place, or a thing!

Noun

100

When two words end with the same noise

Rhyme

100

A word defined as: not clear, or sitting between definitions. Shares a root with the word for someone who uses both their left and right hand. 

Ambiguous

100

You got cowboys and horses and maybe an old prospector!

Western

200

Are they friends?! Are they enemies?! Or...are they something else?!

Example of a frenemies pair (Buffy and the other girl, She-Ra and Catra, Goku and Vegeta, Spongebob and Squidward)

200

An action.

Verb

200

A comparison using like or as

Simile

200

A word defined as: an ordering of events according to time. Shares a root with Zues's dad's name. 

Chronological

200

This genre of literature uses
meter and some
times rhyme to say what
it means to say.

Poetry

300
This character was a total alpha. 

Example of a character who took charge to a toxic extent. 

300

A word that is used in place of a noun. Phobes kind of freak. 

Pronoun

300

The highest point of tension in a story

Climax

300

A word defined as: overbearing pride that often leads to a downfall. Shares a root with someone's sense of what is funny.

Hubris

300

You got monsters over here and maybe just some guy with a knife over there. 

Horror

400

This character was buried because, classically, one type of character must be. 

Example of gay character killed

400

A word that describes an action.

Adverb

400

An exaggeration that is not meant to be taken literally. "I could eat a horse!"

Hyperbole

400

A word defined as: a sense of shaking caused by a wave of kinetic energy OR a sense of connection with something someone else has said. Shares a root with what we call "action words."

Reverberate

400

All the kissing.

Romance

500

This character was not like other girls. 

Divergent. Or other example. 

500

A word that describes the location or relationship between two words. 

Preposition

500
A word that makes the sound that it describes.

"The horse clip-clopped across the street!"

Onomatopoeia

500

A word defined as: a clear depiction or remembering. The word shares a root with who the Beatles saw in the sky with diamonds.

Lucid

500

True stories, whether it's memoir, reporting, or research. 

Non-fictino

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