Trope or tropes may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Trope (cinema)
In cinema, a trope is what ''The Art Direction Handbook for Film'' defines as "a universally identified image imbued with several layers of contextual meaning creating a new visual metaphor".
A common thematic trope is the rise and fall of a mo ...
, a cinematic convention for conveying a concept
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Trope (literature)
A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. Keith and Lundburg describe a trope as, "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase." ...
, a figure of speech or common literary device
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Trope (music)
A trope or tropus may refer to a variety of different concepts in medieval, 20th-, and 21st-century music.
The term ''trope'' derives from the Greek (''tropos''), "a turn, a change", related to the root of the verb (''trepein''), "to turn, ...
, any of a variety of different things in medieval and modern music
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Fantasy tropes
Fantasy tropes are a specific type of literary tropes (recurring themes) that occur in fantasy fiction. Worldbuilding, plot, and characterization have many common conventions, many of them having ultimately originated in myth and folklore. ...
, elements of the fantasy genre
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TV Tropes
TV Tropes is a wiki website that collects and documents descriptions and examples of plot conventions and devices, which it refers to as tropes, within many creative works. Since its establishment in 2004, the site has shifted focus from coverin ...
, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works
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 (domain- and application-independent) view on reality, which can help the modeler of domain- or ...
in philosophy
* Trope, a musical motif associated with
cantillation, chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible
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 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 to give a precise ...
, 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
Other uses
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Michael Trope (born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent
See also
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Meme
A meme ( ) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural i ...
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