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Meaning
Noun
●
In Art & Literature:
Something
recurring
across a
genre
or type of
art
or
literature
; a motif.
●
In Christianity:
An
addition
(of
dialogue
,
song
,
music
, etc.) to a
standard
element
of the
liturgy
,
serving
as an embellishment.
●
In Rhetoric:
A
figure of speech
in which
words
or
phrases
are used with a
nonliteral
or
figurative
meaning
, such as a metaphor.
●
In Geometry:
Mathematical senses.
A
tangent space
meeting
a
quartic
surface
in a conic.
The
reciprocal
of a
node
on a surface.
●
In Music:
Musical senses.
A
short
cadence
at the
end of
the
melody
in some early music.
A
pair
of
complementary
hexachords
in twelve-tone technique.
●
In Judaism & Music:
Musical senses.
A
cantillation
pattern
, or one of the
marks
that
represents
it.
●
In Philosophy:
Philosophical senses.
Any of the
ten
arguments
used in
skepticism
to
refute
dogmatism.
●
In Metaphysics & Philosophy:
Philosophical senses.
A particular
instance
of a
property
(such as the specific
redness
of a
rose
), as
contrasted
with a universal.
Verb
●
To use, or
embellish
something with, a trope.
●
Senses
relating
chiefly
to
art
or literature.
To
represent
something
figuratively
or
metaphorically
, especially as a
literary
motif.
To
turn into
,
coin
, or create a new trope.
To
analyse
a
work in
terms of its
literary
tropes.
●
To think or
write in
terms of tropes.
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Origin
trope
English
tropus
Latin
τρόπος
Ancient Greek (to 1453)
Sourced from
Etym
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Scene
Fantasy
Character
Depiction
Plotline
Notion
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Fable
Pastiche
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Novel
Ideology
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Catchphrase
Aspect
Movie
Thought
Symbolism
Persona
Symbol
Horror
Shtick
Portrayal
Themes
Parable
Idea
Style
Term
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