What is the meaning of Trope?

Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.

An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.

A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.

Mathematical senses.

  1. A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
  2. The reciprocal of a node on a surface.

A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.

The reciprocal of a node on a surface.

Musical senses.

  1. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
  2. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
  3. A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.

A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.

A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.

A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.

Philosophical senses.

  1. Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
  2. A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.

Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.

A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.

To use, or embellish something with, a trope.

Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.

  1. To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
  2. To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
  3. To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.

To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.

To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.

To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.

To think or write in terms of tropes.

trope

vocative singular of tropus

tropics

a trope

tropics

a trope

inflection of tropar:

  1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
  2. third-person singular imperative

first/third-person singular present subjunctive

third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org