Answer: TROPE
TROPE is a crossword puzzle answer that we have spotted 40 times.
- Metaphor or irony, e.g.
- Metaphor, for one
- Figure of speech
- Metaphor, literarily
- Irony, e.g.
- Literary device
- Figurative use of a word
- Rhetorical device
- Word used as an expression
- Figurative device
- Overused theme
- Metaphor, e.g.
- Figurative expression
- Literary figure of speech
- Recurrent theme
- Irony or hyperbole
- Artistic device
- Irony, say
- Jump scare, for one, in horror movies
- Cliche
- Movie cliche, e.g.
- Meet-cute in a romance film, e.g.
- Amnesia in soap operas, e.g.
- The girl next door, for one
- Evil clown in a horror film, e.g.
- Familiar theme
- Busy businesswoman in a rom-com, e.g.
- Movie cliche
- A car that won't start is a common one in horror films
- Familiar cliché in storytelling, like "the love triangle" or "the girl next door"
- Meet cute in a rom-com, e.g.
- Movie or TV cliche
- Familiar plot device
- Love triangle, e.g.
- Mirror scare in a horror movie, e.g.
- Frequently recurring theme
- Overused plot device
- Writing cliché
- Cliched plot device
- Enemies to lovers, e.g.