trope
IPA: troʊp
noun
- (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
- (medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
- (geometry) Mathematical senses.
- A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
- (archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
- (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.
- (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
- (philosophy) Philosophical senses.
- (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
- (metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
verb
- (transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
- (transitive) 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.
- (intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.
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Examples of "trope" in Sentences
- A typical example of the character trope.
- One trope is the idea of the common enemy.
- They each depict the same trope of fiction.
- This is a typical example of the character trope.
- Ming is a trope for the fascist dictators of the age.
- The amorphous creature is a common trope in science fiction.
- The use of war as metaphor is a literary trope of long standing.
- A common trope is that the ability to work it is innate and rare.
- In rhetoric, an example of double negative is the trope of litotes.