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A figure of speech, such as a metaphor, in which a word or phrase is used other than in a literal manner

A cantillation

A phrase or verse added to the mass when sung by a choir

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

To use, or embellish something with a trope

Something recurring across a genre or type of literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror or ‘once upon a time’ as introduction to fairytales. Similar to a cliché, but not necessarily pejorative

{n} a figure used in speech, turn, change

A figure of speech, such as metaphor or metonymy, in which words are not used in their literal (or actual) sense but in a figurative (or imaginative) sense

The word or expression so used

Trope has two meanings (1) a short dialogue inserted into the church mass during the early Middle Ages as a sort of mini-drama, (2) a rhetorical device involving shifts in the meaning of words--see tropes for examples

{i} figure of speech, any rhetorical device in which words are used not in accordance with their literal meaning; phrase interpolated into a text for purposes of emphasis (Literature)

In Gregorian chant, words added to a long melisma

A figure of speech; use of a word or phrase in a figurative sense

Something recurring across a genre or type of literature, such as the mad scientist of horror or once upon a time introduction to fairytales. Similar to a Cliché, but is not necessarily pejorative

n 1 a The figurative use of a word or an expression, as metaphor or hyperbole b An instance of this use; a figure of speech 2 Music A word or phrase interpolated as an embellishment in the sung parts of certain medieval liturgies

words, phrases, images etc that are used for an unusual or interesting effect (tropus, from tropos , from trepein )

language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

The intentional use of a word or expression figuratively, i e , used in a different sense from its original significance in order to give vividness or emphasis to an idea Some important types of trope are: antonomasia, irony, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche Sidelight: Strictly speaking, a trope is the figurative use of a word or expression, while figure of speech refers to a phrase or sentence used in a figurative sense The two terms, however, are often confused and used interchangeably (See also Imagery)

The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech

a short series of words added as an embellishment to the text of the mass or divine office, to be sung by the choir

the figurative use of a word or expression

- an artful deviation from the ordinary or principal signification of a word Among the tropes you may encounter are references to one thing as another, wordplay and puns, substitutions, overstatement and understatement and semantic inversions

Figures of thought; Meaning "turns," "conversions" in which words or phrases are used in a way that effects a conspicuous change in what we take to be their standard meaning

A figure of speech involving the figurative use of a term The term is derived from Greek tropos "a turn" (see also metaphor, metonymy, allegory, symbol)

Related Terms

tropes

plural of trope

Etymology

[ 'trOp ] (noun.) 1533. From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek τρόπος (tropos, “a turn, way, manner, style, a trope or figure of speech, a mode in music, a mode or mood in logic”).