TROPES AND CLICHÉS IN SCREENWRITING
TROPES AND CLICHÉS IN SCREENWRITING

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the current article is to explain the meaning of the terms "trope" and "cliché" in regards to screenplays and to emphasize the importance of these elements in the construct of the script. The article takes into account: the definition of both terms; classification of tropes according to genre, such as horror screenplay tropes, tropes in film noir, female screenplay tropes that depreciated into clichés, exemplifications included; classification of tropes according to their referential meaning, i.e. according to their importance in the screenplay, such as primary tropes and secondary tropes, according to the object they personify, such as person tropes, place tropes, object tropes, according to specific attributes of characters, such as secret or change based tropes; classification of clichés with exemplifications; ways to avoid tropes turning into clichés and it concludes by stressing the importance of understanding the difference between tropes and clichés in the screenwriting landscape so that the interest of the audience canal ways be kept alive.

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