◦ Series · Slice of life / Contemporary

Literary Tropes Guide — A to Z

First, what is a “trope”? A trope is a situation or dynamic that recurs often across stories — not a flaw, an ingredient. Like “two characters hate each other at first and end up together” — it has a name (enemies to lovers) because it works every time and readers actively seek it out. On BookTok and in publishing, these keywords are used the same way across languages, like “spoiler” or “cliffhanger.”

by @latrame