many students rely on cliches and overused tropes. Keep in mind that admissions officers will likely read hundreds of essays recounting stories of students missing the game-winning goal or flunking a test in sophomore English. Try to select a story that onlyyoucan tell, and if you choose a ...
Every once and a while though, it’s okay for us to poke fun at these things or even vent if they annoy us, which is why today dear reader, I bring you a group of traits, trends and tropes in video games. Let’s take a look at some aspects of video games that we love, love...
2. Relying on "whodunnit" and other genre tropes Don't assume that "whodunnit" is the only key element in a crime novel. Yes, this Agatha Christie stereotype is still a lot of fun, and it's a staple of cosies. But some crime novels don't even conceal the killer's identity, and ...
Well, the site TV Tropes has actuallynamed this commonly recurring fantasy character after Aragorn, and who are we to contradict them? While the main characters in theLord of The Ringsare often split off engaging in various subplots, the story is mainly splintered into “Sam and Frodo” and ...
sorry, I can’t get past the spelling of that fucking outer space name) also used the word “die” and, where literally anything concerning Jaxon so far in this story seems to do, the “wow, what a refreshingly different take on common tropes!” disappears and just becomes common tropes...
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