Trope or tropes may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Trope (cinema), a cinematic convention for conveying a concept
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Trope (literature), a figure of speech or common literary device
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Trope (music), any of a variety of different things in medieval and modern music
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Fantasy trope, elements of the fantasy genre
Philosophy and religion
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Trope (philosophy), figurative and metaphorical language and various other technical senses
** Tropes, qualities or properties in
formal ontology
In philosophy, the term formal ontology is used to refer to an ontology defined by axioms in a formal language with the goal to provide an unbiased (Problem domain, domain- and application-independent) view on Reality#Western philosophy, realit ...
in philosophy
* Trope, a musical motif associated with
cantillation, chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible
Politics
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Trope (politics), the use of narratives for political purposes
Science and technology
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Trope (mathematics)
In geometry, ''trope'' is an archaic term for a singular (meaning special) tangent space of a Abelian variety, variety, often a quartic surface. The term may have been introduced by , who defined it as "the reciprocal term to node". It is not easy ...
, an archaic geometry term for a tangent line or plane
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Tropidophiidae or tropes, a dwarf boa
* Tropes, part of the desktop search engine software
Tropes Zoom
People
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Michael Trope (born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent
See also
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TV Tropes, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works
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