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noun. The definition of a truism is a statement of an obvious truth. An example of a truism is the statement: A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do..
trope: Some theme or character type or plot idea or similar that gets used an awful lot in storytelling (books, TVs, movies, even nonfiction storytelling). A trope is similar to a cliche, although most cliches are not tropes - a trope is bigger and more complex than simply a phrase.