romantic plots
Tales of romance
Romantic plots are storylines centered on the development of a love relationship between characters.
The term appears most often in discussions of fiction—novels, films, television—where romance drives or accompanies the main narrative: The show has too many romantic plots and not enough action.
A romantic plot typically follows characters from attraction through obstacles to resolution, whether happy or tragic.
- boy meets girlStandard romantic premise
- love triangleThree-person romantic entanglement
- forbidden loveRomance society prohibits
- star-crossed loversCouple doomed by destiny
- opposites attractMaxim about complementary pairings
enemies to lovers · passion · miscommunication · meet-cute · love at first sight · heartbreak · redemption arc · tragic ending · damsel in distress · long-distance relationship · slow burn · friends to lovers · fake dating · unrequited love · longing · soulmates · secret admirer · devotion
- historical romanceperiod drama, love stories, bodice ripper, historical fiction, historical settings
- Chinese OperaBeijing opera, folk opera, painted faces, face-changing, dan
- seductionseduction, seductive, allure, beguilement, enticement
romantic plotsaction sequences
Choreographed cinematic excitement
battle scenes · fight scenes · chase sequences · revenge plots · political intrigue
romantic plotsnon-linear narratives
Stories defying chronological sequence
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