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trope
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trope
n.
figure of speech, any rhetorical device in which words are used not in accordance with their literal meaning; phrase interpolated into a text for purposes of emphasis (Literature)
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Trope
Trope or tropes may refer to:
- Trope (literature):
- the use of figurative language in literature
- a commonly recurring literary or rhetorical device, motif, or cliché
- Trope (mathematics), an archaic geometry term for a tangent line or plane
- Trope (music), a variety of different things in medieval and modern music
- Trope (philosophy), figurative and metaphorical language and various other technical senses
- Trope (religion), a musical embellishment of texts
- Trope of Litotes, a literary method of denying a negation
- Tropes Zoom, a desktop search engine
- TV Tropes, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works
- Fantasy tropes and conventions, elements of the fantasy genre
- Trope or cantillation, the ritual chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue services
- Tropes, qualities or properties in formal ontology (philosophy)
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trope
Noun
1. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
(synonym) figure of speech, figure, image
(hypernym) rhetorical device
(hyponym) irony
(class) lens
(class) blind alley
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trope
nm.
trope, figure of speech, any rhetorical device in which words are used not in accordance with their literal meaning; phrase interpolated into a text for purposes of emphasis (Literature)
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trope
n.
tropa; básnická figura
