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