Definition of tropes Tropes
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What does tropes mean?
Wiktionary 
- tropes (Noun)
Plural of trope.
Part of speech
ð€- tropes, noun, plural of trope.
WordNet
NounPlural: tropes |
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| trope - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | ||
| figure of speech, figure, image | ||
| rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) | ||
| conceit the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride | ||
| irony incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" | ||
| hyperbole, exaggeration extravagant exaggeration | ||
| kenning conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | ||
| metaphor a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | ||
| metonymy substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') | ||
| oxymoron conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence') | ||
| prosopopoeia, personification the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | ||
| simile a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') | ||
| synecdoche substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa | ||
| zeugma use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one; "`Mr. Pickwick took his hat and his leave' is an example of zeugma" | ||
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Wiktionary
- trope (Noun)
Something recurring across a genre or type of literature, such as the âmad scientistâ of horror movies or âonce upon a timeâ as an introduction to fairy tales. Similar to archetype and cliché but not necessarily pejorative. - trope (Noun)
A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor. - trope (Noun)
A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music. - trope (Noun)
A phrase or verse added to the mass when sung by a choir. - trope (Noun)
A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique . - trope (Noun)
A cantillation. - trope (Verb)
To use, or embellish something with a trope.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary ð
- trope (n.)
The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech. - trope (n.)
The word or expression so used.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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trope
A rhetorical figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used other than in a literal manner.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary ð
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trope
trÅp, n. (rhet.) a word or expression changed from its proper sense for emphasis, a figure of speechâ-metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony: a short cadence peculiar to Gregorian melodiesâalso Differentia and Distinctio: formerly, a phrase occasionally interpolated in different parts of the mass: (geom.) the reciprocal of a node.âadj. TrÅâ²pical, figurative.âadv. TrÅâ²pically.ân. TrÅâ²pist, one who uses tropes or who explains Scripture by them.âadjs. TrÅpologâ²ic, -al, expressed or varied by tropes or figures.âadv. TrÅpologâ²ically.âv.t. Tropolâ²ogise, to use as a trope.ân. TrÅpolâ²ogy, a tropical or figurative mode of speech: a treatise on tropes: that interpretation of Scripture which reads moral meanings into any and every passage. [Fr.,âL. tropusâGr. troposâtrepein, to turn.]
Part of speech
ð€- trope, noun, singular of tropes.
