Lit Class Tropes

Hello, students! This is Prof. Tropington's literature seminar, "Troping in the Literary Field!"

TV Tropes is a great place to learn about literary techniques, but most of the tropes here aren't quite 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. See also Universal Tropes, Omnipresent Tropes, and The Oldest Ones in the Book.

Tropes:

 * Alliteration
 * Allusion
 * Alternate Aesop Interpretation
 * Alternate Character Interpretation
 * The Antagonist
 * Anti-Hero
 * Anti-Villain
 * Archetypal Character
 * Bathos
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall
 * Byronic Hero
 * Call to Adventure
 * Character Development
 * Character Focus
 * Classical Antihero
 * Classic Villain
 * The Climax
 * Comedy
 * Conflict
 * Rising Conflict
 * Deconstruction
 * Denouement
 * Deus Ex Machina
 * Dialogue
 * Dramatis Personae
 * Dynamic Character
 * The Epic
 * Exposition
 * Fairy Tale
 * Flash Back
 * Flash Fiction
 * Flat Character
 * Foil
 * Foreshadowing
 * Fourth Wall
 * Genre
 * Greek Chorus
 * Herald
 * The Hero
 * The Hero's Journey
 * In Medias Res
 * Inciting Incident
 * Irony
 * MacGuffin
 * Meaningful Name
 * Minimalism
 * The Narrator
 * Novel
 * Novelette
 * Novella
 * Plot
 * Plot Threads
 * Point of View
 * Power Trio
 * The Protagonist
 * Purple Prose
 * Red Herring
 * Rounded Character
 * Said Bookism
 * Satire
 * Shadow Archetype
 * Short Story
 * Show, Don't Tell
 * Static Character
 * Story Arc
 * Symbolism
 * Subtext
 * Three Act Structure
 * Tragedy
 * Tragic Flaw
 * Tragic Hero
 * Tragic Mistake
 * The Trickster
 * Unreliable Narrator
 * Villain Protagonist

Nothing to do with learning about Lit. Or the study of White Magic.