What are some storytelling cliches?

1st person narrator is revealed as a caracter who was a very small part of diegesis

>>9142186
Once upon a time...

>>9142186
Oh. And 'they lived happily ever after.'

>vein bursts in protagonist's testicle just as he's about to shot the bad guy.

>>9142186
just browse tvtropes.

A significant focus of the novel is on the older brother and little brother/sister relationship, which is usually full of corny "i'll always look out for you and protect you" shit.

Happy endings

Ignoring all warning signs because of muh emotions

Mentor figure dying so the protag can move forward...

>>9142186
It was all a dream.....

A lot of story ideas will contain tropes though I'm never annoyed by them as long the novel or whatever it is is good on the whole

>>9142186
Protagonist is a straight white male

>>9142186

foreshadowing anything

also one of the worst

>>9142186
People repeatedly denying a fact that is later made obvious.

>According to an ancient prophecy...

Dropped

>>9145882
Hey! That's a good one! And not only that, but the very clichasis of a major western religion! As a result, two others come to mind: the scrawny, cowardly kid who through some odd principle or other ('wax on, wax off') is ultimately able to bewilder some unredeemable bully; and the one that concerns the weird outcast kid whom no one rightly understands (the elf who wants to be a dentist in Rudolph comes to mind)-- who 'runs away' but after a series of conversations and adventures with a mythical beast of some sort is magically welcomed back with a kind of adulation that rolls him toward what later becomes known as his 'destiny,' be it (as) prophet, king, or dentist.

>>9142186
Time skips.

>>9146263
foreshadowing can be very beautiful and literary, but only if it's done well.

a good story should be complete and tight and should also function like a fractal. so if you've got no foreshadowing, all you've got is one deus ex machina after another and that sucks

You should all be required to post examples, if you're going to claim that these are cliches. And don't just give me YOU KNOW THAT PEOPLE DO THIS AND IT'S BAD SO I DONT HAVE TO CITE EXAMPLES bullshit.

>>9146564

I do think it is somewhat situational

>so if you've got no foreshadowing, all you've got is one deus ex machina after another and that sucks

but this is wrong
avoiding foreshadowing is a great way to make a story feel highly realistic as of course there usually is no foreshadowing in real life either

>>9142186
the damsel in distress

>>9146583
But why bother making a story realistic? that's cheap and lazy.
I do agree that foreshadowing isn't realistic, but neither is most dialogue or skipping the parts of everyday life like shitting and pissing multiple times every 24 hours.
so the muh realism argument doesn't really hold up

>>9146597

every great literary work doesn't necessarily strive to be entirely realistic however they do strive to relate as much as possible to reality in their themes and how the narrative is presented

in this sense realism is in fact one of the most desirable traits in a literary work and virtually a prerequisite to even enter that category

Sex

Bad writing

Relying on the external world.

Avoiding cliches or deconstructing them.

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