Trope
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Trope or tropes may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Trope (cinema), a cinematic convention for conveying a concept
- Trope (literature), a figure of speech or common literary device
- Trope (music), any of a variety of different things in medieval and modern music
- Fantasy tropes, elements of the fantasy genre
- TV Tropes, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works
Philosophy and religion
- Trope (philosophy), figurative and metaphorical language and various other technical senses
- Trope, a musical motif associated with cantillation, chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible
- Tropes, qualities or properties in formal ontology in philosophy
Science and technology
- Trope (mathematics), an archaic geometry term for a tangent line or plane
- Tropidophiidae or tropes, a dwarf boa
- Tropes, part of the desktop search engine software Tropes Zoom
Other uses
- Michael Trope (born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent
- Trope of litotes, a rhetorical method of denying a negation