Genre convention

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In literature, fiction, and narrative broadly, a convention or trope (among other meanings) may refer to any type of situation, character, plot structure, physical object, or other element that commonly appears or recurs across works within a particular genre or narrative medium. Thus, for instance, tropes typical in narratives of science fiction are often distinct from those of fantasy, which are often distinct from those of horror, etc. Conventions are the very features that are expected of, and that may even define, a given genre, as determined by social custom. The word motif, while possibly a synonym, usually instead refers to such an element that recurs internally within a single story (or series) only.

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