Trope or tropes may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Trope (cinema)
In cinema, a trope is a type of stereotypical situation or mannerism of a character that is commonly used in its setting or genre. A common thematic trope is the rise and fall of a mobster in a classic gangster film. The film genre also often f ...
, a cinematic convention for conveying a concept
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Trope (literature)
A literary trope is an artistic effect realized with figurative language – word, phrase, image – such as a rhetorical figure. In editorial practice, a ''trope'' is "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase". Seman ...
, a figure of speech or common literary device
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Trope (music)
The word trope or tropus may refer to a variety of different concepts in Medieval music, medieval, 20th-century music, 20th-, and Contemporary classical music, 21st-century music.
The term ''trope'' derives from the Greek (''tropos''), "a tur ...
, any of a variety of different things in medieval and modern music
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Fantasy trope
A fantasy trope is a specific type of literary trope (recurring theme) that occurs in fantasy fiction. Worldbuilding, plot, and characterization have many common conventions, many of them having ultimately originated in myth and folklore. J. ...
, elements of the fantasy genre
Philosophy and religion
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Trope (philosophy)
Trope denotes figurative and metaphorical language and one which has been used in various technical senses. The term ''trope'' derives from the Greek τρόπος (''tropos''), "a turn, a change", related to the root of the verb τρέπειν (' ...
, 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)
Tropes are narratives that often rely on symbols or myths to inform beliefs in politics and political science. John S. Nelson argued in 1998 that tropes were not examined enough, and that being more aware of them would improve political discussi ...
, 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
The Tropidophiidae, common name dwarf boas or thunder snakes, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found from Mexico and the West Indies south to southeastern Brazil. These are small to medium-sized fossorial snakes, some with beautiful and strikin ...
or tropes, a dwarf boa
* Tropes, part of the desktop search engine software
Tropes Zoom
Tropes Zoom was a desktop search engine and semantic analysis software from Acetic/Semantic-Knowledge. Originally written by Pierre Molette in 1994 in partnership with University Paris 8, it was the first search engine based on semantic networks t ...
People
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Michael Trope
Michael Lance "Mike" Trope (born 1951), is a Los Angeles based trial lawyer and former sports agent for over 200 NFL players.Bill Brubaker"Trope: 'It's a game that has no rules' ,"''New York Daily Times,'' April 14, 1983. Trope was a sports agent ...
(born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent
See also
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TV Tropes
TV Tropes (also written as TVTropes) is a wiki founded by "Fast Eddie" in 2004 that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes. Its contents cover many creative works and non- ...
, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works
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