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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