Trope Definition

trōp
tropes
noun
tropes
A figure of speech.
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The use of a word or words in a figurative sense.
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Figurative language in general.
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A common, often conventional, theme, motif, style, etc.
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In the medieval church,
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A turning or changing.
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Something that turns or changes.
Thaumatrope.
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Turning.
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verb

To use, or embellish something with a trope.

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(often literature) To turn into, coin or create a new trope.

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(often literature) To analyze a work in terms of its literary tropes.

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(intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.
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Other Word Forms of Trope

Noun

Singular:
trope
Plural:
tropes

Origin of Trope

  • From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (tropos, “a turn, way, manner, style, a trope or figure of speech, a mode in music, a mode or mood in logic").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin tropus from Greek tropos turn, figure of speech trep- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Gr -tropos: see trope

    From Webster's New World College Dictionary, 5th Edition

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