P Tropes

This page lists tropes of literary work Always Visible (Another Prayer for the Dying Horror Genre) by Russian author Vitaly Ivolginsky, starting with the letter A.

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^{Warning: detailed listing and analysis of tropes may partially or completely reveal the plot or other nuances. In addition, their number may be supplemented from time to time.}

^{Denial of responsibility: possible strange language constructs are caused by translation from the author’s native language into English.}

List of tropes

• The Pollyanna: Delia Yonce
• Pun: Often used in the text.
• Parental Neglect: Delia recalls that when her father kicked her away from the table at age five, her mother did not interfere and simply silently submitted to her husband.
• Pietà Plagiarism: When Pharqraut is killed in front of Galbraith, the inspector holds his friend’s corpse in his arms until the orderlies take him away
• Plot Threads: Acts zero and Two follow the Yonce family, and acts One and Three follow Police Inspector Galbrath.
• Plot-Irrelevant Villain: Doctor Baselard, who kills Delia and immediately leaves Portland to hide in the wilds of London. In fact, he only appears in the last two chapters of the first act, and then he exists only in the characters’ lines.
• Precision F-Strike: When Nelissen talks about finding something like a Fetus papyraceous inside Delia’s uterus, Galbraith responds with an “Stupid and unscientific bullshit”.
• Product Placement: The work mentions Tandy’s microcomputer.
• Psychic Powers: It’s never explicitly stated, but when Jo first sees Delia outside the window, he perceives her gaze as “the gaze of a hundred people” and compares it to spears.
• Papa Wolf: It is Delia’s father who is responsible for the character named Jo ultimately dying.
• Perverse Puppet: Galbraith’s nightmare mentions a wooden dummy of Schaeymoure, which doctor Baselard made in order to simulate communication with the mister chief inspector (and ultimately blow off his head)
• Please, Don’t Leave Me: This is exactly how Delia reacts when Galbraith urgently leaves her house.
• Persecuted Intellectuals: Jordan Thurlow’s character is portrayed as a well-read bookworm who had the misfortune of meeting a girl whose parents accused her boyfriend of molesting their daughter.