figure of speech, figure, image, topos, common thread, subtrope, instance, same old story, commonplace, truism, more...

anti-trope, subversion, inversion, deviation

metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, oxymoron, alliteration, metonymy, irony, litotes, more...

common, rhetorical, central, familiar, literary, dominant, standard, key, powerful, cultural, major

movie cliché,   expressive device,   literary convention,   tropemovie cliché