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Definition trope

Etymology

From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to ????? (trop?, “solstice; trope; turn”) and ??????? (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

trope (plural tropes)

1. (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
2. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
3. (geometry) Mathematical senses.
   1. A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
   2. (archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
4. (music) Musical senses.
   1. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
   2. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
   3. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
   4. (Roman Catholicism) A phrase or verse added to the Mass when sung by a choir.
5. (philosophy) Philosophical senses.
   1. (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
   2. (metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.

Verb

trope (third-person singular simple present tropes, present participle troping, simple past and past participle troped)

1. (transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
2. (transitive) Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
   1. To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
   2. To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
   3. To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
3. (intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.

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