...Tropes Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation A trope is defined as any rhetorical or literary device such as metonymy, metaphor, irony synecdoche that brings out another meaning of word other than the literal meaning. It is the use of words in a figurative manner. Trope exists in most work of art and they serve almost the same purpose. It is true that they have an effect on the viewers. This paper presents the effects on trope ion the minds and the whole being of the reader. They affect the viewer in the following ways. Viewers use trope on the basis of resemblance. They relate the tropes to the real event of the nature. Sometimes, resemblance is created through allusion, for allusion, the viewer must have prior knowledge of an event to relate with the current events. For instance, in the film ‘Bad Teacher’ there is actor allusion that brings resemblance; Jason Segel says ‘ am just fucking with you’ this are words used by the same character in the film, ‘There is Something About Mary’. In addition, the statement, ‘they do not do this song anymore’, is an allusion from Timberlake’s songs. This also tells us that he is a singer though part time. Concrete particular is another effect of tropes on a viewer. This means that when the viewer sees a trope in a film there is an image created in their mind and later it becomes concrete in the real world. In Bad Teacher, the character...
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...Trouble is a Friend of Mine is an outrageously wild journey within its three-hundred pages full of energetic sarcasm, unconventional characters that push the boundaries of what is normal in Young Adult contemporary, and a plot that likes to fly by you at the speed of a fighter jet - I didn’t want this crazy ass adventure to end. Zoe Webster, our protagonist, (in the stereotypical Young Adult trope) has parents that have just divorced which, in turn, forces her to move to a small, unknown town with her mother. As we all know from other novels which use this same formula, the main character ends up feeling depressed, bored, and extremely annoyed with whatever parent took her – in this case, her mother. Zoe has always been a lot closer to her...
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...The first common western trope used in True Grit is the good guy vs. bad guy. In this film, there are several “good guys.” First, there is Rooster whom at first seems mysterious and cold. However, his bravery and nobility shine through as he rescues Mattie from the snake pit and and tirelessly carries her to safety after her horse falters. The other obvious good guy is LaBouef, who returns to helps to rescue both Mattie & Chaney towards the end of the movie. Our two protagonists spend the movie hunting down the “bad guys”, who in this film are Chaney (the heartless renegade who murdered Mattie’s dad), and Ned (his boss and fellow renegade). The second common trope used in this movie is a final showdown. In a grassy pasture, Rooster comes face...
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...The beauty in literate and film is the ability of the artist to mold themes and motifs to fit unusual circumstances and even give them multiple layers. The skill of applying a common trope to not just one obvious character but many within the narrative allows the story to relate to the human experience on a deeper level. Perhaps the most commonly explored trope is that of “sins of the past” specifically their effect on several generations. Director Guillermo del Toro represent this theme in his movie Crimson Peak through not just one main character but two, as well as through other unsuspected ones. Fully depicting the idea that everyone has sins and while the effects my not be felt immediately they will eventually effect someone or something....
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...Throughout the novel, Lee utilizes many different character tropes to support her protagonist. Most namely of these is Atticus, as he is the most prominent adult figure in Scout’s life. Through most of the story, Atticus has a very defined role in the town, being the voice of reason to all the chaos in Maycomb County. In a demonstration of the immense respect the people of Maycomb County have for Atticus, Scout is told to “stand up, your father’s passin’.” This act of respect has an even larger impact when put into context. In this scene, the trial had ended, with Atticus and his client on the losing side. Despite this defeat, the coloured people of Maycomb still felt it necessary to acknowledge their gratitude towards Atticus. Along with being...
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...Hollywood in the early 1900’s. To create fantastical worlds based off the “American Dream”. A dream of becoming the best that you can, a dream where everyone is seen as equal and can become as successful as they wish to be. Commonly, this “dream” state of movies is shown through the relationships between characters, increasingly the “buddy-trope” is used especially in Western style movies. This Western style was first created in the James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Pioneers” as a transition between the English historical romance and the American western. In this novel, he paints a picture of a small...
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...Anita Sarkeesian is a Canadian-American feminist media critic, blogger, and public speaker. She is the founder of Feminist Frequency, a website that hosts videos and commentary analyzing portrayals of women in popular culture. She has received particular attention for her video series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, which examines tropes in the depiction of female video game characters. In 2012, Sarkeesian was targeted by an online harassment campaign following her launch of a Kickstarter project to fund the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series. At the same time, supporters donated almost $160,000 to the project, far beyond the $6,000 she had sought. The situation was covered extensively in the media, placing Sarkeesian at the center of...
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...Ishmael Reed has received more critical responses than almost any other contemporary African American male writer. In spite of Reed’s ongoing conviction, as he and other black male artists have been misrepresented and virtually ignored, the press, scholars, students, journalist, fellow writers, and other assorted groups have studied his work. Born February 22, 1938, Reed has produced, since the Publication of The Free-Lance Pallbearers, five novels, four books of poetry, numerous reviews and critical articles, editor to five issues of major small multicultural press literary magazine, and collected two books of essays. To this day, Reed is considered to be a major literary leader of third world press, and continues to been a very affluent and busy writer. Throughout his wide-ranging works, it becomes apparent that Reed incorporates the impact of Afro Americans on the culture of the United States in the corpus of American letters. His tone and style are sometimes of satire and parody, but his intentions are deadly stern, as evidenced by his numerous essays advancing his major contribution—in the art of neo-hoodism. Recently, critics have inadequately labeled Reed’s fiction, and have deemed his collection of works as less interesting than his earlier, more notorious writings. To the naïve reader, these novels seem more straightforward in their plots and messages, and seem to have a much less tentative technique. However, the ostensive clarity is in fact part of a much more...
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...fond of Heathcliff. The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him”, suggesting that the intense love they had for one another will forever be problematic. It is important here to focus on Nelly’s use of the adverb “too”, as it describes that Catherine’s love towards Heathcliff goes beyond average. When having to choose between Heathcliff and Edgar, Catherine concludes “I’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own”. For Heathcliff, Catherine refuses to eat or sleep and also willingly exposes herself to a chill when she is feverish. Here, Catherine’s love towards Heathcliff has resulted in a form of mental anguish, a gothic trope. Not only this, but it also suggests that the greatest love story within Wuthering Heights is explored through acts of violence, another gothic trope. It is also due to Catherine’s immense love for Heathcliff (alongside social position and stability) that she chooses to marry Edgar; she will “aid Heathcliff… with [her] husband’s money”. Unfortunately,...
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...The Greater Good in Eye in the Sky Directed by Gavin Hood and written by Guy Hibbert, the independent British film, Eye in the Sky, is a thriller which centers around the premise of assault drones. The film falls between multiple subgenres of thriller, with elements of war film and crime drama. Several relevant criteria factors into this kind of genre including political and technological themes, suspense narrative, and an unexpected conclusion. To rank the criteria in order of genre importance suspense would be foremost, followed by an unexpected conclusion, and lastly political and technological themes. Using the aforementioned criteria to evaluate Eye in the Sky illuminates the manner in which the film adheres to – or defies – genre tropes. Ultimately, Eye in the Sky is a relevant and emotionally challenging work of film mastery....
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...Straight Outta Compton (SOC) constituted a watershed moment in black popular culture that coincided with the devastating consequences of austerity, surveillance, and scapegoating associated with this period. The radical dissemination of the images of “blackness” throughout the globe has created a moment of crisis in some sectors of the black community. The basic tropes of “blackness”—black culture, black identity, black institutions-have been distorted, remixed, and undermined by the logic of the current global economy. At stake is the preservation of a “modern” blackness—that blackness which was posited and circulated as a buffer against white supremacy, political disenfranchisement, slavery, Jim Crow segregation and the collusion of racist imaginations and commercial culture in the early 20th century. In many sectors,“blackness” is literally under siege. It is in this context that many of the contemporary tropes of “blackness” that circulate in commercial popular culture (niggas, hip-hop, the underclass, queers, etc.), particularly in popular music, film, and music video are perceived as threats to blackness—as tropes of an erosive and authentic blackness that is as threatening to the Black Public proper as “death” itself. Hip-hop has documented all of this, and more. There has not been a time since when N.W.A was as popular as a Public Enemy, or where the storytelling of a Slick Rick could fall alongside the pimp strolls of a Too Short, or Roxanne Shante was just as necessary...
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...danger in the film while the character doesn’t. Finally, composite would be a mix of the three into one group, but it still isn’t the best form as it doesn’t focus on either of the other forms. It’s a “jack of all trades, but master of none” situation. Other smaller tropes are used in horror. There are things like anything involving sex surely leading to death, a trope even mentioned in Scream, the weather during these movies will almost always be awful, either rain or storms and sometimes even blizzards. Paranormal movies tend to have their own set of tropes that they tend to abuse. Animals going crazy for no reason at all, strange things going on with mirrors and reflections, and when kids have unusual imaginary friends are all definite things used in many paranormal movies (Biella). Not only do the movies have tropes, but the characters in them as well. There will almost always be a leader figure in the group of people being tormented who says that their best move would be to split up, even though it clearly isn’t. There are also the authoritative figures who happen to do nothing and not believe anyone when they bring up the ghost or murderer that has been tormenting them (Biella). There are definitely some poor tropes that have stuck with horror. Chris Stuckmann believes that “The jumpscare is the cheapest tactic used in horror movies today and the most frightening thing is its rampant use has caused many audience members to forget what true horror is.” In fact, the jumpscare...
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...the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special Example: “Ten sail for ten ships” Chiasmus- a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases Example: “He went to the country, to the town went she.” Synesthesia- a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color. Example: "The pie tasted like sunlight." Tropes of Comparison: Metaphor- a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance Example: “Its raining men” Simile- a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared Example: “As busy as a bee” Metonymy- figure of speech that consists of the use of the name of one object or concept for that of another to which it is related, or of which it is a part Example: ‘The pen is mightier than the sword” Tropes of Wordplay: Puns- the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words Example: “Tried some bear stew, it was a little grizzly.” Antanaclasis- a form of speech in which a key word is repeated and used in a different, and sometimes contrary, way for a play on words Example: "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be...
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...This is the author’s version of a work that was submitted/accepted for publication in the following source: Lee, Sujin, Jung, Eun, Sawang, Sukanlaya, & Sung, Jessica (2013) Construal level and ingroup bias. In Toombs, L. (Ed.) 73rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management : Capitalism in Question, 9-13 August 2013, Lake Buena Vista (Orlando), Florida. This file was downloaded from: http://eprints.qut.edu.au/63905/ c Copyright 2013 [please consult the author] Notice: Changes introduced as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing and formatting may not be reflected in this document. For a definitive version of this work, please refer to the published source: #10541, p. 1 CONSTRUAL LEVEL AND INGROUP BIAS Abstract The causal relationship between mental construal level and ingroup bias remains elusive. This paper uncovers a boundary condition and a mechanism underlying the relationship. We predict and find support for our hypotheses in four experiments conducted in East Asian and Western cultures. Data showed that a high- (vs. low-) level construal activated state belongingness, but had no effect on state rejection, state self-esteem, positive emotion, or negative emotion in participants from Korea (Experiment 1) and Australia (Experiment 3). Moreover, a high- (vs. low-) level construal triggered greater ingroup bias for Koreans (Experiment 2) and Australians (Experiment 3) primed with a relational self, but not for those...
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